Praise
Lord of Life, All Praise Excelling
- Words:
- Clement C. Moore, 1808.
- Music:
- 'HyFrydol' Rowland H. Prichard, 1830.
- Setting:
- "The English Hymnal", 1906.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7
- 1Lord of life, all praise excelling,Thou, in glory unconfined,Deignst to make Thy humble dwellingWith the poor of humble mind.As Thy love, through all creation,Beams like Thy diffusive light;So the high and humble stationBoth are equal in Thy sight.
- 2Thus Thy care, for all providing,Warmed Thy faithful prophet's tongue;Who, the lot of all deciding,To Thy chosen Israel sung.When Thy harvest yields Thee pleasure,Thou the golden sheaf shalt bind;To the poor belongs the treasureOf the scattered ears behind.
- 3Still we read Thy Word declaringMercy, Lord, Thine own decree;Mercy ev'ry sorrow sharing,Warms the heart resembling Thee.Still the orphan and the stranger,Still the widow owns Thy care;Screened by Thee in ev'ry danger,Heard by Thee in ev'ry prayer.
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In the hymnals
- The tune, HyFrydol, is in 728 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.