The Prayer Perfect - 1930

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia

Dear Lord, kind Lord
Gracious Lord I pray
Thou wilt look on all I love
Tenderly today!
Weed their hearts of weariness;
Scatter ev'ry care
Down a wake of angel wings
Winnowing the air.
Dear Lord, kind Lord!
Gracious Lord! I pray
Thou wilt look on all I love
Tenderly today.

Bring unto the sorrowing
All release from pain,
Let the lips of laughter
Overflow again,
And with all the needy
O divide, I pray,
This vast treasure of content
That is mine today!
Dear Lord, kind Lord!
Gracious Lord! I pray
Thou wilt look on all I love
Tenderly today.

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The Prayer Perfect 1930
Music by Oley Speaks
Lyric by James Whitcomb Riley
copyright 1930 by G. Schirmer Inc.
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Tuesday 08 Jan 2002 at 08.36
in association with Doug Grierson
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