Text: | Before Thy Throne, O God, We Kneel |
Author: | William B. Carpenter, 1841-1918 |
Tune: | VATER UNSER |
Composer: | Anonymous |
Harmonizer: | Johann S. Back |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Before Thy throne, O God, we kneel;
Give us a conscience quick to feel,
A ready mind to understand
The meaning of Thy chastening hand;
Whate’er the pain and shame may be,
Bring us, O Father, nearer Thee.
2. Search out our hearts and make us true,
Wishful to give to all their due;
From love of pleasure, lust of gold,
From sins which make the heart grow cold,
Wean us and train us with Thy rod;
Teach us to know our faults, O God.
3. For sins of heedless word and deed,
For pride ambitious to succeed;
For crafty trade and subtle snare
To catch the simple unaware;
For lives bereft of purpose high,
Forgive, forgive, O Lord, we cry.
4. Let the fierce fires, which burn and try,
Our inmost spirits purify:
Consume the ill; purge out the shame;
O God! be with us in the flame;
A newborn people may we rise,
More pure, more true, more nobly wise.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Before Thy throne, O God, we kneel |
Title: | Before Thy Throne, O God, We Kneel |
Author: | William B. Carpenter, 1841-1918 |
Meter: | 88.88.88 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tune: ST. PETERSBURG, attributed to Dmitri S. Bortniansky, 1825 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VATER UNSER |
Composer: | Anonymous (1539) |
Harmonizer: | Johann S. Back (1726) |
Meter: | 88.88.88 |
Incipit: | 55345 32155 47534 |
Key: | c minor |
Source: | Geistliche Lieder |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Media | |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |