I Will Cling to Thee

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I will cling to the Rock, I will cling to the Rock

Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck
Tune: [I will cling to the Rock]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 I will cling to the Rock,
I will cling to the Rock,
When the waves of temptation shall roll;
To the Rock of Ages clinging,
safe and happy I am singing,
And no storm shall shake my soul.

Refrain:
I am clinging to the Rock,
I am clinging to the Rock,
When sorrow’s waves dash high;
Let the raging billows mock,
I am clinging to the Rock,
To the “Rock that is higher than I.”

2 I will cling to the Rock,
I will cling to the Rock,
There is no other refuge for me;
Tho’ by danger so surrounded,
I shall never be confounded,
For the Rock my stay shall be. [Refrain]

3 I will cling to the Rock,
I will cling to the Rock,
And my joy everlasting shall be,
That in realms of brightest glory,
I shall sing salvation’s story
Where there shall be no more sea. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Love and Praise No. 4 #86

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Author: Mrs. Frank A. Breck

Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersy, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck. Go to person page >

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