Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: I'll praise my Maker while I've breath
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Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: LPM
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Hymn Number: 689
Page Number: 408, 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'er 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 word forever stands secure,
He saves the opprest, he feeds the poor,
And none shall find his promise vain.
The Lord gives eyesight to the blind,
The Lord supports the fainting mind,
And sends the labouring conscience peace:
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow, and the fatherless,
And gives the prisoner sweet release.