Loving Shepherd of Thy sheep
Loving Shepherd of Thy sheep. Jane Eliza Leeson* (1807/8-1881).
First published in Leeson’s Hymns and Scenes from Childhood (1842) in three 8-line stanzas. It was included in the Second Edition of A&M (1875), and has remained in A&M books through to A&MCP and A&MRW. It is found in many other books, including EH, RCH, BBCHB and CH3. In Ireland it is still in use in ICH5 (2000), and it was well known in Canada from its use in editions of The Book of Common Praise, from 1909 onwards, of the Church of England in Canada.
The text in 1875 was as follows:
Loving Shepherd of Thy sheep,Keep Thy lamb, in safety keep;Nothing can Thy power withstand,None can pluck me from Thy...
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