Ancient Of Days
- Words:
- W. C. Doane
- Music:
- J. A. Jeffery
Sheet music
- 1Ancient of days, who sittest throned in glory,To thee all knees are bent, all voices pray;Thy love has blest the wide world’s wondrous storyWith light and life since Eden’s dawning day.O blessed Father, who hast led thy childrenIn all the ages, as with fire and cloud,Thru seas dry-shod, thru weary wastes bewild’ring,To Thee in rev’rent love our hearts are bowed.
- 2O holy God, with heart and voice adoring,Praise we the goodness that doth own our days;Pray we that Thou wilt hear us, still imploringThy love and favor, kept to us always.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1886, the words are in 204 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.