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Text:Beset with snares on every hand
Author:Doddridge
Tune:ST. GALL

450. Beset with snares on every hand

1 Beset with snares on every hand,
In life’s uncertain path I stand:
Saviour divine! diffuse Thy light,
To guide my doubtful footsteps right.

2 Engage this roving treacherous heart
Wisely to choose the better part;
To scorn the trifles of a day,
For joys that none can take away.

3 Then let the wildest storms arise;
Let tempests mingle earth and skies:
No fatal shipwreck shall I fear,
But all my treasures with me bear.

4 If Thou, my Jesus, still be nigh,
Cheerful I live, and joyful die:
Secure, when mortal comforts flee,
To find ten thousand worlds in Thee.

Text Information
First Line: Beset with snares on every hand
Author: Doddridge (1755, a.)
Meter: L. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1890
Topic: The Christian Life: The Heavenly Spirit; Sexagesima Sunday; Eighth Sunday after Trinity (2 more...)
Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate tune: #316 or #412
Tune Information
Name: ST. GALL
Meter: L. M.
Key: E♭ Major
Notes: Now Public Domain. Source from index: Ad. from "Cant. S. Galli." W. H. Monk



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