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Hymn · Psalm 39

A Mourner's Entreaties

SELLINGE · S.M. · words from The Psalter, 1912 · music John Pyke Hullah

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A Mourner's Entreaties on my but soon Thy re a they pen an days days, are dent swer how grace, quest; span; fail; am Lord, Thy end, a re e Lord, 1. My To 4. I 3. O 2. here, fears, thought My De And My know, me stran gard ter make nal ger my bid mour the best am a ing ner is and no give breath weak I at man. place. rest. frail. grim, in my my my lence ap ful as si years thought pil not Thee to But A turn To And thers my With A How were, tears, nought, show fa as from pear spir it The Psalter, 1912 SELLINGE S.M. John Pyke Hullah, 1904

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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