Mother’s Evening Prayer
Ann Stephan
- Key:
- Bb Major
- Vocal Range:
- Low
- Pitch Range:
- Bb3 - D5
- Composer:
- Ann Stephan
- Lyricist:
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Publisher:
- Ann Stephan
- Instrumentation:
- Keyboard/Vocal
- Key:
- Bb Major ,
- D Major
- Vocal Range:
- High ,
- Low
- Vocal Pitch Range:
- Bb3 - D5 ,
- D4 - F#5
- MP3 Duration:
- 03:56
Lyrics
Mother’s Evening Prayer
Music by Ann Stephan
Words by Mary Baker Eddy
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.
Words used courtesy of The Mary Baker Eddy Collection
