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Text:As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams
Author:Nahum Tate
Author:Nicholas Brady
Tune:SPOHR
Composer:Louis Spohr

525. As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams

1 As pants the hart for cooling streams
When heated in the chase,
So longs my soul, O God, for Thee
And Thy refreshing grace.

2 For Thee, my God, the living God,
My thirsty soul doth pine;
Oh, when shall I behold Thy face,
Thou majesty Divine?

3 Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Hope still; and thou shalt sing
The praise of Him who is thy God,
Thy health’s eternal Spring.

4 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
The God Whom we adore,
Be glory as it was, is now,
And shall be evermore.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: As pants the hart for cooling streams
Title: As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams
Author: Nahum Tate (1696, cento)
Author: Nicholas Brady (1696, cento)
Meter: C.M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1941
Scripture:
Topic: Cross and Comfort
Tune Information
Name: SPOHR
Composer: Louis Spohr (1835, arr.)
Meter: C.M.
Key: G Major



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