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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Hail gracious heav'nly Prince (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Hail gracious heav'nly Prince

Topic: Home/Youth and Age

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: SM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1217

Page Number: 729, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Hail, gracious, heav'nly Prince!

To thee let children fly:

And on thy kindest providence

O may we all rely.



Jesus will take the young

Beneath his special care;

And he will keep their youthful days

From ev'ry wo and snare.



He knows their tender frame,

Nor will their youth contemn;

For he a little child became,

To love and pity them.



Nor does he now forget

His youtful days on earth:

Nor would we ever cease our praise

For the Redeemer's birth.