O Father, hear my morning prayer

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1. O Father, hear my morning prayer,
Thine aid impart to me,
That I may make my life today
Acceptable to Thee.

2. May this desire my spirit rule,
And, as the moments fly,
Something of good be born in me,
Something of evil die.

3. Some grace that seeks my heart to win,
With shining victory meet;
Some sin that strives for mastery
Find overthrow complete.

4. That so throughout the coming day
The hours shall carry me
A little farther from the world,
A little nearer Thee.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #4806

Author: Frances A. Percy

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First Line: O Father, hear my morning prayer
Author: Frances A. Percy
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

O Father, hear my morning prayer.[ Morning.] This is in Dr. John Hunter's Hymns of Faith and Life, 1896, No. 721, marked as by "Frances A. Percy." It is repeated in the Public School Hymn Book, 1903, and the Rugby School Hymn Book , 1906.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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EVERSLEY (Cottman)


ST. ETHELDREDA

Thomas Turton (b. Hatfield, Yorkshire, England, 1780; d. Westminster, Middlesex, England, 1864) composed ST. ETHELDREDA in 1860; it was published in James Turle's Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship (1863). Educated at Catharine Hall, Cambridge, England, Turton became a professor of mathematics at C…

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