Tune: Llanfair
('Hail the day that sees Him rise')
Acts 9 v.32-43 parts
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Peter unto Lydda came - Alleluia!
Sometimes called Lod, town the same - Alleluia
There he did find Aeneas* (*E-knee-us) - Alleluia
Came to him in his distress - Alleluia
For he bed-ridden eight years - Alleluia
Yet now to him hope appears - Alleluia
He though paralysed was healed - Alleluia
As Peter to him appealed - Alleluia
Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes - Alleluia
You whole, He your sickness takes - Alleluia
Arise, make your bed and go - Alleluia
He did so, others did know - Alleluia
They did see his healing there - Alleluia
Lydda and Sharon* did share (*Share-on, town)
They turned to the Lord, Him praised - Alleluia
Thankful to Him, worship raised - Alleluia
And at Joppa Tabitha - Alleluia
Dorcas, Gazelle, name for her - Alleluia
Full of good works and alms-deeds - Alleluia
Helping to meet many needs - Alleluia
She became sick, then she died - Alleluia
People there did then confide - Alleluia
In Peter, for he was near - Alleluia
Came to them, said, Do not fear - Alleluia
Weeping widows showed coats to - Alleluia
Him that she had made, old, new - Alleluia
Peter went alone and prayed - Alleluia
By her bedside he was stayed - Alleluia
He turned unto her and said - Alleluia
Tabitha, arise, from dead - Alleluia
She did, and opened her eyes - Alleluia
And sat up, there no denies - Alleluia
He showed her to people, so - Alleluia
That she was alive they know - Alleluia
This caused them too to believe - Alleluia
In the Lord and Him receive - Alleluia!
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: April 2nd, 2020 02:07
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 7.7.7.7. metre with plenty of Alleluias!
- Category: Spiritual
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That's a lot of syllables - now you've used up your quota - Miss Berles will not be happy.
Thanks M. Oh dear, I know! Also it means I am singing more - arrgghhh! lol.
Its a pity he wasn't there for my Joyce.
Thanks Gold. I understand - and when Christians seems to merrily on, praising, etc, and may seem oblivious to suffering. One thing, if not a cliché, is that she is in a better place now - even if we were not in this current health crisis. They prayed for two women at church - cancer - they died. Some call death 'the final healing'. I think in some cases it may be
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