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Text:The Ships Glide in at the Harbor's Mouth
Author:Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster
Tune:DEO GRATIAS
Composer:Grace Wilbur Conant
Media:MIDI file

6037. The Ships Glide in at the Harbor's Mouth

1. The ships glide in at the harbor’s mouth,
And the ships sail out to sea;
And the wind that sweeps from the sunny south
Is sweet as sweet can be.
There’s a world of toil and a world of pain,
And a world of trouble and care,
But O in a world where our Father reigns,
There is gladness everywhere!

2. The harvest waves in the breezy morn,
And the men go forth to reap;
The fullness comes to the tasseled corn,
Whether we wake or sleep.
And far on the hills by feet untrod
There are blossoms that scent the air,
For O in this world of our Father, God,
There is beauty everywhere!

Text Information
First Line: The ships glide in at the harbor's mouth
Title: The Ships Glide in at the Harbor's Mouth
Author: Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster (1893)
Language: English
Source: On the Road Home (Harper & Brothers, 1893)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: DEO GRATIAS
Composer: Grace Wilbur Conant (1913)
Incipit: 13343 25565 43453
Key: C Major
Source: Worship and Song, by Winchester and Conant, 1913
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Some hymnals show the composer as A. B. Ponsonby, Conant's pseudonym.



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