Tune: Corpus Christi
('Jesus in thy dear Sacrament')
Genesis 16 v.6-14
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Lord, hear us now, we ask today
And even every day
Through night watch keep
Guard us your sheep
Hear night and day, we pray
Help us to listen unto you
With us your grace endue
Speak your message clear
Cause us to hear
Obey with godly fear
For you did unto Hagar hark
Her situation stark
Sarah cast her out
Without a doubt
Her state abandoned, dark
Yet you Lord, found her, desert land
Where she escaped the hand
Of her stern mistress
Who caused distress
To her, no more did bless
You promises to Hgave
You did visit and save
She would bear a son
Ishmael the one
"God shall hear" it be done
And well nearby she did then name
Beer-lahai-roi, the same
"The well of Him, He
The God, He be
Who does live and sees me"
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: November 16th, 2017 15:42
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.6.5.6.4. Not well-known, and more often in Anglo-Catholic or Roman Catholic, neither of which are my 'regular' places.
- Category: Spiritual
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So, orchi, tell me, is the grass on the other side (the Catholic side) greener? Your last stanza mentions some kind of Beer, but I always thought the Catholics only use wine! 🙂
Heehee thanks Fred. There's a place called Beer, and Beer-Sheba too. Have to dash to Israel though, to get the booze from there! Oh no, I'm not Roman Catholic, only 'Catholic' as it means 'Universal. I just heard the tune in an Anglo-Catholic Church I visited. Bit of a strange hotch-potch.
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