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Hymn · Psalm 39

A Mourner's Entreaties

AYLESBURY · S.M. · words from The Psalter, 1912 · music Chetham's Psalmody, 1718

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A Mourner's Entreaties on my but soon days days, an dent swer are how pen grace, quest; span; fail; Thy re a they end, am Lord, Thy a re e Lord, My 4. I 3. O 2. To 1. here, fears, thought know, De And My My ger stran gard ter make my nal me best am bid mour A ing ner is and no give breath weak With But a the at I rest. place. man. frail. in my my grim, pil not Thee to How as si years thought A turn To And nought, show tears, thers my as it were, my lence ap ful fa from pear spir The Psalter, 1912 AYLESBURY S.M. Chetham's Psalmody, 1718

1.My end, Lord, make me know,
My days, how soon they fail;
And to my thoughtful spirit show
How weak I am and frail.

2.To Thy eternal thought
My days are but a span;
To Thee my years appear as nought,
A breath at best is man.

3.O Lord, regard my fears,
And answer my request;
turn not in silence from my tears,
But give the mourner rest.

4.I am a stranger here,
Dependent on Thy grace,
A pilgrim, as my fathers were,
With no abiding place.

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