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PROTECTION.
L.M.
Six
lines.
Original.
"The
Lord
is
my
Shepherd
I
shall
not
want."
Psa,
23-1.
Joseph
Addison.
1812.
Key
of
E.
flat
Major.
By
C.
F.
Letson.
1.
The
Lord
my
pas-ture
shall
pre-pare,
And
feed
me
with
a
shep-herd's
care;
His
presence
shal
my
wants
sup
-
ply,
And
guard
me
2. With
gloom-y
hor-rors
o
-
ver-spread,
Though
in
the
paths
of
death
I
tread;
My
stead-fast
heart
shall
fear
no ill,
For
thou, O
with
a
watch-f
ul
eye;
(My
noon-day
walks
he
shall
at-tend)
My
noon-day
walks
he
shall
at
-
tend
And
all
my
mid-
night
hours
de-fend.
(For
thou,
O
Lord
art
wiih me
still)
Thy
friendly
crook
shall
give
me
aid,
And
guide
me
through
the
dreadful
shade.
(My
noon-day
walks)
He
shall
at-tend,
My
noon-day
walks,
he
shall
at-tend
And
all
my
mid-night
hours
de-fend.
Lord,
art
with
me
still;
(For
thou
O
Lord,)
Art
with
me
still,
Thy
friend-ly
crook
shall
give
me
aid,
And
guide
me
throug
the
dreadful
shade.
Prof.
C.
F.
Letson
has
several
tunes
in
the
Sacred
Harp.
See
partial
history
of
him
in
other
sketches.
This
tune
appears
in
the
Lute
of
Zion,
page
187
Presbyterian
Psalmist,
mentioned
in
these
sketehes.
The
hymn
was
composed
by
Addison,
and
it
has
four
verses
originally.
Predicated
on
the
23rd
Psalm;
title
to
the
original
hymn
is
"Trust
in
the
Supreme
Being."
The
author
of
the
hymn
composed
several
valuable
hymns,
and
was
first
publised
in
a
hymn
book
called
The
Spectator;
same
hymn
appears
now
in
Tillet's
hymn
book
of
1889,
No.
40.
The
words
also
appear
in
Loyd's
hymn
book,
page
583,
and
also
in
several
other
books.