Fill thou my life, O Lord my God
Fill thou my life, O Lord my God. Horatius Bonar* (1808-1889).
Published in Bonar’s Hymns of Faith and Hope, Third Series (1866), in twelve 4-line stanzas, with the title ‘Life’s Praise’. A shortened 8-line text (four stanzas) appeared in the Primitive Methodist Hymnal Supplement (1912). In that text stanza 2 was:
Praise in the common words I speak,
Life’s common looks and tones;
In intercourse at hearth or board
With my beloved ones.
Not in the temple crowd alone,
Where holy voices chime;
But in the silent paths of earth,
The quiet rooms of time.
Stanza 4 was:
So shall each fear, each fret, each care,
Be turnèd into song,
And every winding of the way
The echo shall...
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