Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: I'll praise my Maker while I've breath
Topic: God/Creation
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: Thomas Bowman
Meter: LPM
Tune: Newcourt
Hymn Number: 77
Page Number: 030, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI'll praise my Maker while I've breath,
And, when my voice is lost in death
Praise shall employ my nobler powers;
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
While life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures.
Happy the man whose hopes rely
On Israel's God: he made the sky,
And earth, and seas, with all their train.
His truth forever stands secure;
He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor,
And none shall find his promise vain.
The Lord pours eye sight on the blind;
The Lord supports the fainting mind;
He sends the laboring conscience peace;
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless,
And grants the prisoner sweet release.