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Text:Great Ruler of All Nature's Frame
Author:Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
Tune:ST. MARTIN'S
Composer:William Tans'ur
Media:MIDI file

2030. Great Ruler of All Nature's Frame

1. Great Ruler of all nature’s frame,
We own Thy power divine;
We hear Thy breath in every storm,
For all the winds are Thine.

2. Wide as they sweep their sounding way,
They work Thy sovereign will;
And, awed by Thy majestic voice,
Confusion shall be still.

3. Thy mercy tempers every blast
To those who seek Thy face;
And mingles, with the tempest’s roar,
The whispers of Thy grace.

4. Those gentle whispers let me hear,
Till all the tumult cease,
And gales of Paradise shall lull
My weary soul to peace.

Text Information
First Line: Great Ruler of all nature's frame
Title: Great Ruler of All Nature's Frame
Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755)
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: BRECON, Nicholas Heins, 1839-1910
Tune Information
Name: ST. MARTIN'S
Composer: William Tans'ur (1735)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 11215 12334 54312
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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