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Hymn: Thou God of love beneath thy sheltering wings (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: Thou God of love beneath thy sheltering wings

Topic: Present and Future/Second Advent

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: 10s 6 and 4

Tune: The Burial

Hymn Number: 727

Page Number: 266, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Thou God of love! be-neath thy sheltering wings

We leave our ho-ly dead,

To rest in hope!

From this world's suffer-ings

Their souls have fled!



Oh! when our souls are burdened with the weight

Of life, and all its woes,

Let us re-mem-ber them, and calmly wait

For our life's close.