Closing Songs
Lord, Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing
- Words:
- John Fawcett, 1773; verse 3 alt. by Godfrey Thring, 1880.
- Music:
- 'Regent Square' Henry Smart, 1867.
- Setting:
- "Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship", 1867.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7 8 7
- 1Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing;Fill our hearts with joy and peace;Let us each Thy love possessing,Triumph in redeeming grace.O refresh us, O refresh us,Trav'ling through this wilderness.
- 2Thanks we give and adorationFor Thy Gospel's joyful sound;May the fruits of Thy salvationIn our hearts and lives abound.Ever faithful, ever faithful,To the truth may we be found.
- 3So that when Thy love shall call us,Savior, from the world away,Fear of death shall not appall us,Glad Thy summons to obey.May we ever, may we ever,Reign with Thee in endless day.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1786, the words are in 1,352 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Regent Square, is in 1,127 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. Further sheet music is 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.