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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Father I know that all my life (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Father I know that all my life

Topic: The New Life/Trust and Joy

Writer: A Waring

Composer:

Meter: CM 6 lines

Tune:

Hymn Number: 775

Page Number: 453, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Father, I know that all my life

Is portioned out for me;

The changes that will surely come

I do not fear to see:

I ask thee for a present mind,

Intent on pleasing thee.



I ask thee for a thoughtful love,

Through constant watching wise,

To meet the glad with joyful smiles,

And wipe the weeping eyes;

A heart at leisure from itself,

To soothe and sympathize.



I would not have the restless will

That hurries to and fro,

That seeks for some great thing to do,

Or secret thing to know:

I would be treated as a child,

And guided where I go.



Wherever in the world I am,

In whatsoe'er estate,

I have a fellowship with hearts,

To keep and cultivate;

A work of lowly love to do

For him on whom I wait.