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Let Children Hear The Mighty Deeds
- Words:
- Isaac Watts, 1719. Music: 'Lea' James Lea Summers, (1837-1881).
- Setting:
- "The Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal" (Ohio Synod), 1908.
- Metre:
- 8 6 8 6
- 1Let children hear the mighty deedsWhich God performed of old;Which in our younger years we saw,And which our fathers told.
- 2He bids us make His glories known,His works of pow'r and grace;And we'll convey His wonders downThrough every rising race.
- 3Our lips shall tell them to our sons,And they again to theirs;That generations yet unbornMay teach them to their heirs.
- 4Thus shall they learn in God aloneTheir hope securely stands,That they may ne'er forget His workBut practice His commands.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1719, the words are in 181 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Lea, is in 3 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. 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.