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Hymn: Glory to thee whose powerful word (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Glory to thee whose powerful word

Topic: Times and Seasons/The Sea

Writer: C Wesley

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1289

Page Number: 772, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Glory to thee, whose powerful word

Bids the tempestuous wind arise;

Glory to thee, the sovereign Lord

Of air and earth, and seas and skies.



Let air and earth and skies obey,

And seas thy awful will perform;

From them we learn to own thy sway,

And shout to meet the gathering storm.



What though the floods lift up their voice,

Thou hearest, Lord, our silent cry;

They can not damp thy children's joys,

Or shake the soul, while God is nigh.



Roar on, ye waves! our souls defy

Your roaring to disturb their rest;

In vain to impair the calm ye try-

The calm in a believer's breast.