Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Almighty Father gracious Lord
Topic: God/Watchcare
Writer: Anne Steele
Composer: Sylvanus Pond
Meter: CM
Tune: Henry
Hymn Number: 223
Page Number: 076, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsALMIGHTY Father, gracious Lord,
Kind Guardian of my days,
Thy mercies let my heart record,
In songs of grateful praise.
In life's first dawn, my tender frame
Was thine indulgent care,
Long ere I could pronounce thy name,
Or breathe the infant prayer.
Each rolling year new favors brought
From thine exhaustless store-
But, ah! in vain my laboring thought
Would count thy mercies o'er.
Still I adore thee, gracious Lord,
For favors more divine:
That I have known thy sacred word
Where all thy glories shine.