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My God and Father, while I stray Far from my home, on life’s rough way, O teach me from the heart to say, “Thy will be done!” If thou shouldst call me to resign What most I prize, it ne’er was mine; I only yield Thee what was Thine; “Thy will be done!” Renew my will from day to day, Blend it with thine, and take away All that now makes it hard to say, “Thy will be done!” Then, when on earth, I breathe no more The prayer, oft mix’d with tears before, I’ll sing upon a happier shore, “Thy will be done!”
My God and Father, while I stray Far from my home, on life’s rough way, O teach me from the heart to say, “Thy will be done!” If thou shouldst call me to resign What most I prize, it ne’er was mine; I only yield Thee what was Thine; “Thy will be done!” Renew my will from day to day, Blend it with thine, and take away All that now makes it hard to say, “Thy will be done!” Then, when on earth, I breathe no more The prayer, oft mix’d with tears before, I’ll sing upon a happier shore, “Thy will be done!”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 668 · printed citation: Elliott · subject: WILL—WILLING
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