Hold Thou My Hand
- Words:
- Fanny J. Crosby
- Music:
- Hubert P. Main
Sheet music
- 1Hold Thou my hand: so weak I am, and helpless,I dare not take one step without Thy aid;Hold Thou my hand; for then, O loving Savior,No dread of ill shall make my soul afraid.Hold Thou my hand, and closer, closer draw meTo Thy dear self- my hope, my joy, my all;Hold Thou my hand, lest haply I should wander;And, missing Thee, my trembling feet should fall.
- 2Hold Thou my hand, that when I reach the marginOf that lone river Thou didst cross for me,A heav’nly light may flash along its waters,And ev’ry wave like crystal bright shall be.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1880, the words are in 90 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.