The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/Lord, While for All Mankind We Pray

by John Reynell Wreford(Dalehurst attr. Arthur Cottman)

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Lord, While for All Mankind We Pray

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(DALEHURST. C. M.)

John Wreford, 1837

Arthur Cottman, 1872

 

1. Lord, while for all mankind we pray,
   Of every clime and coast,
   O hear us for our native land,—
   The land we love the most,
   
2. O guard our shores from every foe;
   With peace our borders bless;
   With prosperous times our cities crown,
   Our fields with plenteousness.
   
3. Unite us in the sacred love
   Of knowledge, truth, and thee;
   And let our hills and valleys shout
   The songs of liberty.
   
4. Lord of the nations ! thus to thee
   Our country we commend ;
   Be thou her refuge and her trust,
   Her everlasting friend. Amen.