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Text:'Mid All the Traffic of the Ways
Author:William A. Dunkerley
Tune:ST. AGNES
Composer:John Bacchus Dykes
Media:MIDI file

4251. 'Mid All the Traffic of the Ways

1. ’Mid all the traffic of the ways,
Turmoils without, within,
Make in my heart a quiet place,
And come and dwell therein.

2. A little shrine of quietness,
All sacred to Thyself,
Where Thou shalt all my soul possess,
And I may find myself.

3. A little shelter from life’s stress,
Where I may lay me prone,
And bare my soul in loneliness,
And know as I am known.

4. A little place of mystic grace,
Of self and sin swept bare,
Where I may look upon Thy face,
And talk with Thee in prayer.

Text Information
First Line: 'Mid all the traffic of the ways
Title: 'Mid All the Traffic of the Ways
Author: William A. Dunkerley (1917)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: The Vision Splendid, 1917
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ST. AGNES
Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1866)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 33323 47155 53224
Key: G Major
Source: Hym­nal for Use in the Eng­lish Church, by John Grey, 1866
Copyright: Public Domain



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