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Hymn: O Father though the anxious fear (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: O Father though the anxious fear

Topic: Opening

Writer: <no first name given> Barbauld

Composer: T Cook

Meter: CM

Tune: Prayer

Hymn Number: 271

Page Number: 089, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O FATHER, though the anxious fear
May cloud to-morrow's way,
No fear nor doubt shall enter here;
All shall be thine to-day.


We will not bring divided hearts
To worship at thy shrine;
But each unworthy thought departs,
And leaves this temple thine.



Sleep, sleep to-day, tormenting cares,
Of earth and folly born;
Ye shall not dim the light that streams
From this celestial morn.