Whom should we love like Thee

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1 Whom should we love like Thee,
our God, our guide, our King,
the tow'r to which we flee,
the rock to which we cling?
O for a thousand tongues to show,
O for a thousand tongues to show
the mercies which to Thee we owe.

2 The storm upon us fell,
the floods around us rose;
the depths of death and hell
seemed on our souls to close;
To God we cried in strong despair,
to God we cried in strong despair,
He heard, and came to help our prayer.

3 He came the King of kings,
He bowed the sable sky;
and on the tempest's wings
rode glorious down from high;
The earth before her maker shook,
the earth before her maker shook
the mountains quaked at His rebuke.

4 Above the storm He stood,
and awed it to repose;
He drew us from the flood,
and scattered all our foes.
He set us in a spacious place,
He set us in a spacious place,
and there upholds us by His grace.

Source: Psalms of Grace #18c

Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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First Line: Whom should we love like Thee
Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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CHRISTCHURCH (Steggall)


LENOX (Edson)


LOVE UNKNOWN

John Ireland (b. Bowdon, Cheshire, England, 1879; d. Rock Mill, Washington, Sussex, England, 1962) composed LOVE UNKNOWN in 1918 for the text "My song is love unknown"; the tune was first published in The Public School Hymn Book of 1919. A letter in the London Daily Telegraph of April 5, 1950, claim…

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