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First Line: Father! That in the olive shade
Last Line: Hallow this grief!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Mothers; Sickness; Illness


FATHER! that in the olive shade
When the dark hour came on,
Didst, with a breath of heavenly aid,
Strengthen thy Son;

Oh! by the anguish of that night,
Send us down blest relief;
Or to the chastened, let Thy might
Hallow this grief!

And Thou, that when the starry sky
Saw the dread strife begun,
Didst teach adoring faith to cry,
"Thy will be done;"

By Thy meek spirit, Thou, of all
That e'er have mourned the chief --
Thou, Saviour! if the stroke must fall,
Hallow this grief!





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