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’:
1. Fill Thou my life, O Lord my God, In every part with praise; That my whole being may proclaim Thy being and Thy ways.
2. Not for the lip of praise alone, Nor even the praising heart, I ask, but for a life made up Of praise in every part.
3. Praise in the common things of life, Its goings out and in, Praise in each duty and each deed, However small and mean.
4. Praise in the common words I speak, Life’s common looks and tones,In intercourse at hearth or board With...
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