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CONSOLATION.
C.
M.
"
Hear
me,
O
Lord,
when
I
cry
with
my
voice:
have
mercy
also
upon
me,
and
answer
me."-Ps.
27:
7.
ISAAC
WATTS,
1707.
Key
of
A
Minor.
DEAN.
1.
Once
more,
my
soul,
the
ris
-
ing
day
Sa-lutes
thy
wak-ing
eyes;
Once
more,
my
voice,
thy
trib
-
ute
pay
To
Him
that
rules
the
skies.
2.
Night
un-to
night
His
name
re
-
peats,
The
day
re-news
the
sound,
Wide
as
the
heav'n
on
which
He
sits,
To
turn
the
sea-sons
round.
3.
'Tis
He
sup-ports
my
mor
-
tal
frame,
My
tongue
shall
speak
His
praise;
My
sins
would
rouse
His
wrath
to
flame,
And
yet
His
wrath
de-lays.
4.
On
a
poor
worm
Thy
pow'r
might
tred,
And
I
could
ne'er
with-stand;
Thy
jus-tice
might
have
crushed
me
dead,
But
mer-cy
held
Thine
hand.
5.
A
thou-sand
wretch-ed
souls
are
fled
Since
the
last
set-ting
sun,
And
yet
Thou
length'nest
out
my
thread,
And
yet
my
mo-ments
run.
6.
Dear
God,
let
all
my
hours
be
Thine,
Whilst
I
en-joy
the
light,
Then
shall
my
sun
in
smiles
de-cline,
And
bring
a
pleas-ant
night.
The
above
hymn
was
in
the
old
hymn
books
printed
under
the
name
of
"
Morning
Song."
It
was
taken
from
"
Hymns
and
Spiritual
Songs,"
and
contains
six
verses.
See
remarks
about
Mr.
Watts,
on
page
47,
under
the
tune
"
Primrose."
We
can
find
nothing
about
Mr.
Dean,
the
author
of
the
music.
It
was
published
in
"
Southern
Harmony,"
in
1835,
page
17;
"
Missouri
Harmony,"
in
1837,
page
25,
and
books
of
earlier
date.
See
"
Sacred
Harp,"
by
White
and
King,
from
1844
to
1869.
DISTRESS.
L.
M.
"Then
they
cried
unto
the
Lord
in
their
trouble,
and
he
delivered
them
out
of
their
distresses."-Ps.
107:
6.
ANNE
STEELE.
Key
of
E
Minor.
Psalmist,
hymn
1088.
1.
So
fades
the
lovely
bloom-ing
flow'r,
Frail,
smil-ing
sol-ace
of
an
hour;
So
soon
our
tran-sient
com-forts
fly,
And
pleas-ure
on-ly
blooms
to
die.
2. Is
there
no
kind,
no
heal-ing
art,
To
soothe
the
an-guish
of
the
heart?
Spir
-
it
of
grace,
be
ev-er
nigh;
Thy
comforts
are
not
made
to
die.
3.
Let
gen-tle
pa-tience
smile
on
pain,
Till
dy-ing
hope
re-vives
a-gain,
Hope
wipes
the
tear
from
sor-row's
eye,
And
faith
points
up-ward
to
the
sky.
Anne
Steele
was
born
in
1706
and
died
in
Broughton
Hampshire
in
1778.
This
hymn
was
supposed
to
have
been
composed
by
her
in
1735.
She
was
a
great
woman.
Her
works
of
many
volumes-prose
and
hymns-were
published
in
1760
and
1780,
and
reprinted
in
1863,
and
credited
to
Anne
Steele.
"Distress"
is
rightly
named,
and
applies
to
Miss
Steele's
hymns,
for
she
was
a
great
sufferer
all
her
life
from
bodily
illness
and
lasting
grief
over
the
loss
of
her
intended
husband,
who
was
drowned
the
day
before
the
appointed
wedding.
See
further
statements
in
the
"
Story
of
Hymns
and
Tunes,"
by
Brown
and
Butterworth.
No
trace
can
be
found
of
the
author
of
the
music.
It
was
published
on
page
22
of
"
Southern
Harmony,"
in
1825,
by
Walker,
and
its
orgin,
no
doubt,
was
much
earlier
than
this.