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O Father, All Creating
- Words:
- John Ellerton, 1876. Music: 'Aurelia' Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1864.
- Setting:
- "Order of worship for the Reformed Church in the United States", 1866.
- Metre:
- 7 6 7 6 7 6 7 6
- 1O Father, all creating,Whose wisdom, love, and pow'rFirst bound two lives togetherIn Eden's primal hour,Today to these Thy childrenThy earliest gifts renew:A home by Thee made happy,A love by Thee kept true.
- 2O Savior, Guest most bounteousOf old in Galilee,Vouchsafe today Thy presenceWith these who call on Thee;Their store of earthly gladnessTransform to heav'nly wine,And teach them, in the tastingTo know the gift is Thine.
- 3O Spirit of the Father,Breathe on them from above,So mighty in Thy pureness,So tender in Thy love;That, guarded by Thy presence,From sin and strife kept free,Their lives may own Thy guidance,Their hearts be rul'd by Thee.
- 4Except Thou build it, Father,The house is built in vain;Except Thou, Savior, bless it,The joy will turn to pain;But naught can break the unionOf hearts in Thee made one,And love Thy Spirit hallow'dIs endless love begun.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1876, the words are in 62 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Aurelia, is in 1,295 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.