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Text:Blessed Be Thy Name For Ever
Author:James Hogg
Tune:LINCOLN
Composer:Anonymous
Media:MIDI file

8684. Blessed Be Thy Name For Ever

1 Blessèd be Thy name for ever,
Thou of life the guard and giver;
Thou canst guard Thy creatures sleeping;
Heal the heart long broke with weeping.
God of stillness and of motion,
Of the desert and the ocean,
Of the mountain, rock, and river,
Blessèd be Thy name for ever.

2 Thou who slumberest not nor sleepest,
Blest are they Thou kindly keepest;
God of evening’s parting ray,
Of midnight’s gloom, and dawning day,
That rises from the azure sea,
Like breathings of eternity;
God of life! that fadeth never,
Blessèd be Thy name for ever!

Text Information
First Line: Blessed be Thy name for ever
Title: Blessed Be Thy Name For Ever
Author: James Hogg (1816, alt.)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: "The Palmer's Morning Hymn," which forms a part of Canto IV of his poem "Mador of the Moor"
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: SCHMÜCKE DICH by Johann Crüger
Tune Information
Name: LINCOLN
Composer: Anonymous (1847)
Meter: LM
Key: B♭ Major
Source: The New York Choralist by Thomas Hastings and William B. Bradbury (New York: Mark H. Newman, 1847)
Copyright: Public Domain



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MIDI file: MIDI
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