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Text: | All Things Are Thine; No Gift Have We |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier |
Tune: | GERMANY |
1 All things are Thine; no gift have we,
Lord of all gifts, to offer Thee;
And hence with grateful hearts today
Thine own before Thy feet we lay.
2 Thy will was in the builders' thought;
Thy hand unseen amidst us wrought;
Through mortal motive, scheme, and plan,
Thy wise eternal purpose ran.
3 In weakness and in want we call
On Thee for whom the heavens are small;
Thy glory is Thy children's good,
Thy joy Thy tender Fatherhood.
4 O Father, deign these walls to bless;
Fill with Thy love their emptiness;
And let their door a gateway be
To lead us from ourselves to Thee.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | All things are Thine: no gift have we |
Title: | All Things Are Thine; No Gift Have We |
Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier (1873) |
Meter: | L. M. |
Publication Date: | 1955 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Commitment; Dedication Services: Of a Church; God: Love and Fatherhood(2 more...) |
Copyright: | Words used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company, authorized publishers. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GERMANY |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | B♭ Major |
Source: | William Gardiner's Sacred Melodies, 1815 |