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Mother’s Evening Prayer
Robert Collister
- Key:
- D/A/C/D
- Vocal Range:
- Medium
- Pitch Range:
- B3 - E5
- Composer:
- Robert Collister
- Lyricist:
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Publisher:
- Whispering Chimes Music
- Instrumentation:
- Keyboard/Vocal
- Key:
- D/A/C/D
- Vocal Range:
- Medium ,
- Medium-High
- Vocal Pitch Range:
- B3 - E5
- MP3 Duration:
- 04:16
Lyrics
The Mother’s Evening Prayer
Music by: Robert Collister
Poem 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 after smile earth’s teardrops gain,
And mother finds her home and heav’ly rest.
Words used courtesy of The Mary Baker Eddy Collection