Father And Friend, Thy Light Thy Love

Words:
John Bowring
Music:
Henry Baker

Sheet music

  1. 1Father and Friend, Thy light, Thy love,Beaming through all Thy works we see;Thy glory gilds the heav’ns above,And all the earth is full of Thee.Thy voice we hear, Thy presence feel,While Thou, too pure for mortal sight,Enwrapt in clouds, invisible,Reignest the Lord of life and light.
  2. 2Thy children shall not faint nor fear,Sustained by this delightful tho’t;Since Thou, their God, art ev’rywhere,They cannot be where Thou art not.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1824, the words are in 81 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

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