Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Almighty Father gracious Lord
Topic: The Praises of God
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 106
Page Number: 108, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsAlmighty Father, gracious Lord,
Kind guardian of my days,
Thy mercies let my heart record
In songs of grateful praise.
In life's first dawn, my tender frame
Was thy indulgent care,
Long ere I could pronounce thy name,
Or breathe the infant prayer.
(Around my path what dangers rose!
What snares spread all my road!
No power could guard me from my foes,
But my Preserver, God.
How many blessings round me shore,
Where'er I turn'd my eye!
How many past almost unknown
Or unregarded, by!)
Each rolling year new favors brought
From thy exhaustless store;
But ah! In vain my laboring thought
Would count thy mercies o'er.
While sweet reflection, thro' my days
Thy bounteous hand would trace;
Still dearer blessing claim thy praise,
The blessings of thy grace.
Yes, I adore thee, gracious Lord,
For favors more divine;
That I have known thy sacred word,
Where all thy glories shine.
Lord, when this mortal frame decays,
And every weakness dies,
Complete the wonders of thy grace,
And raise me to the skies.
Then shall my joyful powers unite,
In more exalted lays,
And join the happy sons of light
In everlasting praise.