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Text: | I Bow My Forehead to the Dust |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier |
Tune: | PENTATONE |
Composer: | Henry Walford Davies |
1 I bow my forehead to the dust,
I veil mine eyes for shame,
And urge, in trembling self-distrust,
A prayer without a claim.
No offering of mine own I have,
No works my faith to prove;
I can but give the gifts He gave,
And plead His love for love.
2 I know not what the future hath
Of marvel or surprise,
Assured alone that life and death
His mercy underlies.
And so beside the silent sea
I wait the muffled oar:
No harm from Him can come to me
On ocean or on shore.
3 I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
And Thou, O Lord, by whom are seen
Thy creatures as they be,
Forgive me if too close I lean
My human heart on Thee.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | I bow my forehead to the dust |
Title: | I Bow My Forehead to the Dust |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier (1867) |
Meter: | C. M. D. |
Publication Date: | 1955 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Faith; God: Love and Fatherhood; Humility(3 more...) |
Copyright: | Words used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company, authorized publishers. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PENTATONE |
Composer: | Henry Walford Davies (1923) |
Meter: | C. M. D. |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Copyright: | Music from A Students' Hymnal. Used by permission of Oxford University Press. |