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Text:My End, Lord, Make Me Know
Author:Anonymous
Tune:GREENWOOD
Composer:Joseph Emerson Sweetser
Media:MIDI file

4396. My End, Lord, Make Me Know

1. My end, Lord, make me know,
My days, how soon they fail;
And to my thoughtful spirit show
How weak I am and frail.

2. To Thy eternal thought
My days are but a span;
To Thee my years appear as naught,
A breath at best is man.

3. O Lord, regard my fears,
And answer my request;
Turn not in silence from my tears,
But give the mourner rest.

4. I am a stranger here,
Dependent on Thy grace,
A pilgrim, as my fathers were,
With no abiding place.

Text Information
First Line: My end, Lord, make me know
Title: My End, Lord, Make Me Know
Author: Anonymous (1912)
Meter: SM
Language: English
Source: From The Psalter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1912), number 107
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: GREENWOOD
Composer: Joseph Emerson Sweetser (1849)
Meter: SM
Incipit: 32156 57671 35212
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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