<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472453" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn.—The Word Of Promise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(by supposition)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An Hymn set forth to be sung by the Great Assembly<br>at Newtown, [Mass.] Mo. 12. 1. 1636.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Written by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, eldest son of Rev.<br>ABIEL HOLMES, eighth Pastor of the First Church in<br>Cambridge, Massachusetts.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LORD, Thou hast led us as of old<br>Thine Arm led forth the chosen Race<br>Through Foes that raged, through Floods that roll'd,<br>To Canaan's far-off Dwelling-Place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here is Thy bounteous Table spread,<br>Thy Manna falls on every Field,<br>Thy Grace our hungering Souls hath fed,<br>Thy Might hath been our Spear and Shield.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lift high Thy Buckler, Lord of Hosts!<br>Guard Thou Thy Servants, Sons and Sires,<br>While on the Godless heathen Coasts<br>They light Thine Israel's Altar-fires!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The salvage Wilderness remote<br>Shall hear Thy Works and Wonders sung;<br>So from the Rock that Moses smote<br>The Fountain of the Desart sprung.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon shall the slumbering Morn awake,<br>From wandering Stars of Errour freed,<br>When Christ the Bread of Heaven shall break<br>For Saints that own a common Creed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Walls that fence His Flocks apart<br>Shall crack and crumble in Decay,<br>And every Tongue and every Heart<br>Shall welcome in the new-born Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then shall His glorious Church rejoice<br>His Word of Promise to recall,--<br>ONE SHELTERING FOLD, ONE SHEPHERD'S VOICE,<br>ONE GOD AND FATHER OVER ALL!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472453" data-title="Hymn.—The Word Of Promise de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="(by supposition) An Hymn set forth to be sung by the Great Assembly at Newtown, [Mass.] Mo. 12. 1. 1636. [Written by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, eldest son of Rev. ABIEL HOLMES, eighth Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.] LORD, T..."></div> </div> </div>

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