Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: There is a little lonely fold
Topic: The Church/Divine Constitution
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 448
Page Number: 273, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThere is a little lonely fold,
Whose flock One Shepherd keeps,
Through summer's heat, and winter's cold,
With eye that never sleeps.
By evil beast, or burning sky,
Or damp of midnight air,
Not one in all that flock shall die
Beneath that Shepherd's care.
For if, unheeding or beguiled,
in daughter's path they roam,
His pity follows through the wild,
And guards them safely home.
O, gentle Shepherd, still behold
Thy helpless charge in me;
And take a wanderer to thy fold,
That trembling turns to thee.