Master, speak! Thy servant heareth
Master, speak! Thy servant heareth. Frances Ridley Havergal* (1836-1879).
Written on 19 May 1867 at Weston-super-Mare and published in Havergal’s The Ministry of Song (1869) with the title ‘Master, say on!’. It is based on 1 Samuel 3: 9. It had nine stanzas. Most books abbreviate to four, using 1, 6, 8 and 9 (as in MHB, BHB, and the Song Book of the Salvation Army (1953 and 1986 editions)). Some of the omitted stanzas have a personal and occasional element which makes them unsuitable for congregational use, such as stanzas 2 and 4:
Master, speak in love and power:
Crown the mercies of the day,
In this quiet evening hour
Of the moonrise o’er the bay,
With the music of Thy...
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