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Hymn: There is a little lonely fold (FL)

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

Lyics

There 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.