Tune: Winchester New
('Ride on, ride on in majesty')
Hosea 10 v.12 {Old Testament prophet}
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Sow to yourselves in righteousness
So will the LORD look on you, bless
Reap in mercy, loving-kindness
Return to Him, your sins confess
Break up your fallow ground, it left
Untilled and untended, bereft
It is time to seek the LORD, He
Shall hear your prayers made faithfully
Time to seek Him, until He sure
Rains righteousness on you once more
Soil of your heart shall be prepared
You in refreshings shall have shared
Thus you productive be again
Not in apathy, the time when
You were dull, fruitless, land laid bare
You turned away from God when there
But now fruit unto His glory
And crops be shown in your life, see
Dependent on the LORD who gives
The rain, so watered, each one lives
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: March 11th, 2021 03:02
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.8.8.8. metre, to Easter hymn tune - bit early! The author of the hymn, Henry Hart Milman (1791 - 1868) was a Minister at one of our local town centre churches (1818 - 1821).
- Category: Spiritual
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Comments3
A great encouraging write in time with the allure of springtime. A time for all spiritual souls to give thanks, each in their way, and again till the soil of rebirth as we have for millennia.
Thanks dusk.
Nicely done, Orchi.
Thanks Jerry.
Good one Orchi, those crops will soon be with us.
Andy
Thanks Gold.
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