Mother’s Evening Prayer
Susan Lindquist
- Key:
- Eb
- Vocal Range:
- Low
- Pitch Range:
- Bb3 - Eb5
- Key:
- F
- Vocal Range:
- Medium
- Pitch Range:
- C4 - F5
- Composer:
- Susan Lindquist
- Lyricist:
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Publisher:
- SLVivace
- Instrumentation:
- Keyboard/Vocal
- Key:
- Eb ,
- F ,
- G
- Vocal Range:
- High ,
- Low ,
- Medium
- Vocal Pitch Range:
- Bb3 - Eb5 ,
- C4 - F5 ,
- D4 - G5
- MP3 Duration:
- 03:04
Lyrics
Mother’s Evening Prayer
Music: “Limpsfield†by Andrew Freeman (CS Hymn 210) and “Presence†by Percy
Whitlock (CS Hymn 211), arr. Susan I. Lindquist
Words: Mary Baker Eddy, Poems, p. 4.
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
His habitation high is here, and nigh,
His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.
O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill, — since God is good, and loss is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
“Lo, I am with you alway,” — watch and pray.
No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;
No night drops down upon the troubled breast,
When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain,
And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.
©2001 SLVivace.
Words used courtesy of The Mary Baker Eddy Collection