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Text:Father! Who In The Olive Shade
Author:Felicia D. Hemans, 1793-1835
Tune:HOXTON
Media:MIDI file

9486. Father! Who In The Olive Shade

1 Father! who in the olive shade,
When the dark hour came on,
Didst, with a breath of heavenly aid,
Strengthen Thy Son;

2 O, in the anguish of our night,
Send Thou us blest relief;
And to the chastened, let Thy might
Hallow this grief!

3 And Thou, that, when the starry sky
Saw the dread strife begun,
Didst teach adoring faith to cry,
Thy will be done!

4 By Thy meek spirit, Thou, of all
That e’er have mourned the chief,
Thou Savior! when the stroke doth fall,
Hallow this grief!

Text Information
First Line: Father! who in the olive shade
Title: Father! Who In The Olive Shade
Author: Felicia D. Hemans, 1793-1835
Language: English
Tune Information
Name: HOXTON
Key: E Major
Source: The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book (New York: Mason Brothers/J. E. Tilton, 1859)
Copyright: Public Domain



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