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<h2>AND NOW, BELOVED LORD, THY SOUL RESIGNING</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Father, into Thy hands I commend my Spirit.” Luke 23:46</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_d_y_dykes_jb.jpg" alt="John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876)" width="133.333333333333" height="200"></td>
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<p><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_a_l_alderson_esd.html" target="_blank">Eliza Sibbald Dykes Alderson</a>, 1868. She wrote the hymn at the request of her brother, John Bacchus Dykes.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Commendatio,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_d_y_dykes_jb.html" target="_blank">John Bacchus Dykes</a>, 1868 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_c_commenda.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Perfect Love (Sandringham),” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_a_barnby_j.html" target="_blank">Joseph Barnby</a>, 1890 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_p_perflove.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>And now, belovèd Lord, Thy Soul resigning,<br>
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Into Thy Father’s arms with conscious will,<br>
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Calmly, with reverend grace, Thy head inclining,<br>
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The throbbing brow and laboring breast grow still.</p>
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<p>Freely Thy life Thou yieldest, meekly bending<br>
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E’en to the last beneath our sorrows’ load,<br>
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Yet strong in death, in perfect peace commending,<br>
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Thy Spirit to Thy Father and Thy God.</p>
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<p>My Savior, in mine hour of mortal anguish,<br>
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When earth grows dim, and round me falls the night,<br>
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O breathe Thy peace, as flesh and spirit languish,<br>
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At that dread eventide let there be light.</p>
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<p>To Thy dear cross turn Thou my eyes in dying;<br>
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Lay but my fainting head upon Thy breast;<br>
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Those outstretched arms receive my latest sighing;<br>
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And then, oh! then, Thine everlasting rest.</p>
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<p>O love! o’er mortal agony victorious,<br>
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Now is Thy triumph! now that cross shall shine<br>
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To earth’s remotest age revered and glorious,<br>
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Of suffering’s deepest mystery the sign.</p>
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<p>The present, past and future here are blending,<br>
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Moment supreme in this world’s history,<br>
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Mid darkness, opening graves, and mountains rending,<br>
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New light is dawning on humanity.</p>
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