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Blessed be thy name for ever, Thou of life the guard and giver; Thou canst guard the creatures sleeping, Heal the heart long broke with weeping. God of stillness and of motion, Of the desert and the ocean, Of the mountain, rock, and river, Blessed be thy name for ever. Thou who slumberest not, nor sleepest, Blest are they thou kindly keepest; God of evening’s parting ray, Of midnight’s gloom, and dawning day, That rises from the azure sea, Like breathings of eternity; God of life! that fade shall never, Blessed be thy name for ever.
Blessed be thy name for ever, Thou of life the guard and giver; Thou canst guard the creatures sleeping, Heal the heart long broke with weeping. God of stillness and of motion, Of the desert and the ocean, Of the mountain, rock, and river, Blessed be thy name for ever. Thou who slumberest not, nor sleepest, Blest are they thou kindly keepest; God of evening’s parting ray, Of midnight’s gloom, and dawning day, That rises from the azure sea, Like breathings of eternity; God of life! that fade shall never, Blessed be thy name for ever.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- James Hogg (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 75 · printed citation: James Hogg · subject: BLESSING—BLESSEDNESS—BLESS
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