Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: I'll praise my Maker while I've breath
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 8s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 152
Page Number: 181, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI'll praise my Maker while I've breath,
And when my voice is lost in death
Praise shall employ my nobler powers;
My days of praise shall ne'r be past
While life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures.
Happy the man whose hopes rely
On Israel's God: he made the sky,
And earth, and seas, with all their train:
His truth forever stands secure,
He saves the oppressed, he feeds the poor,
And none shall find his promise vain.
The Lord pours eyesight on the blind:
The Lord supports the fainting mind:
He sends the laboring conscience peace:
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless,
And grants the prisoner sweet release.