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Hymn: As lightly and sweetly we tread (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

First Line: As lightly and sweetly we tread

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> By Permission

Composer: T Harrison

Meter: 8s double

Tune: Exultation

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 216, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

As lightly and sweetly we tread

The rose scatter'd pathway of youth,

We triumph that o'er us is spread

The banner of mercy and truth:

We'll pour forth our praises, that 

He Who liveth and reigneth above

For ever our guardian will be,

That God, our Creator, is love.



We know that his kindness and care

All parts of creation embrace,

That we shall especially share

The gifts of his infinite grace:

To him our thanksgivings ascend:

His blessings unlimited prove

That he is our Father and friend,

That God, our Preserver, is love.



His love he reveal'd in his Son,

Whose mercy no bounds every knew:

We'll praise him for all he has done

And all he has promised to do.

In feeling, in deed, and in word,

Be govern'd by grace from above,

And always rejoice in the Lord,

For God, our Redeemer, is love.