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PLEYEL'S
HYMN.
C.
M.
(Second.)
'Power
belongeth
unto
God;
also
unto
thee,
O
Lord,
belongeth
mercy;
for
thou
renderest
to
every
man
according
to
his
work."-PS.
62:
11, 12.
HELEN
MARIA
WILLIAMS,
1790.
Key
of
F
Major.
IGNAZ
J.
PLEYEL,
1831.
1.
While
thee
I
seek,
pro-tect-ing
Pow'r,
Be
my
vain
wish
-
es
stilled,
And
may
this
con
-
se
- crat - ed
hour
With
bet
-
ter
hopes
be
filled.
2.
In
each
e
-
vent
of
life,
how
clear
Thy
rul
-
ing
hand
I
see !
Each
bless-ing
to
my
soul
more
dear,
Be
-
cause
con
-
ferred
by
thee.
3.
When
glad-ness
wings
my
favored
hour,
Thy
love
my
thonghts
shall
fill;
Resigned
when
storms
of
sorrow
lower,
My
soul
shall
meet
thy
will.
Thy
love
the
pow
'r
of
tho't
bestowed,
To
thee
my
thoughts
would
soar;
Thy
mer
-
cy
o'er
my
life
has
flowed,
That
mer
-
cy
I
a
-
dore.
In
ev
-'ry
joy
that
crowns
my
days,
In
ev
-'ry
pain
I
bear,
My
heart
shall
find
de-light
in
praise,
Or
seek
re
-
lief
in
prayer.
My
lift
-
ed
eye,
without
a
tear,
The
gathering
storm
shall
see:
My
stead-fast
heart
shall
know
no
fear;
That
heart
shall
rest
on
thee.
The
author
of
this
hymn
wrote
two
volumes
of
poetry
in
1786,
which
were
published
about
that
time.
Miss
Williams
was
born
in
England
in
1762.
Her
poems
were
published
when
she
was
twenty-one
years
old.
She
visited
Paris
in
1788,
at
a
period
of
great
trouble,
war
being
waged
between
England
and
France
at
that
time.
She
was
arrested
on
suspicion
of
being
a
foreigner,
and
an
advocate
of
the
Girondist
cause,
and
imprisoned.
She
was
not
released
until
1794.
From
this
time
until
her
death
she
lived
partly
in
England,
but
mostly
in
France,
and
died
in
Paris
in
1827.
She
composed
this
hymn
while
in
prison.
Ignaz
Joseph
Pleyel,
author
of
the
foregoing
music,
was
born
in
1757
and
died
in
1831
in
Paris.
He
was
the
twenty-fourth
child
of
a
village
school-master.
He
commenced
the
study
of
music
when
very
young.
He
studied
under
Haydn,
who
often
spoke
of
him
as
his
best
and
dearest
pupil.
He
was
reared
in
Austria,
and
composed
a
great
deal
of
music,
and
stood
high
as
a
musician.