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<h2>ETERNAL POWER, OF EARTH AND AIR!</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Increase our faith.” Luke 17:5</h3></p>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_r_bronte_a.html" target="_blank">Anne Brontë</a>, 1843; first appeared in <em>Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell</em> (London: Aylott and Jones, 1846). This work, dated September 10, 1843, and originally titled “A Doubter’s Prayer,” is one of several religious poems Brontë wrote.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Truro,” Williams’ <em>Psalmodia Evangelica</em>, 1789 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_t_r_truro.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>Eternal Power, of earth and air!<br>
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Unseen, yet seen in all around,<br>
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Remote, but dwelling everywhere,<br>
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Though silent, heard in every sound.</p>
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<p>If e’er Thine ear in mercy bent,<br>
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When wretched mortals cried to Thee,<br>
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And if, indeed, Thy Son was sent,<br>
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To save lost sinners such as me:</p>
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<p>Then hear me now, while, kneeling here,<br>
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I lift to thee my heart and eye,<br>
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And all my soul ascends in prayer,<br>
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Oh, give me, give me faith! I cry.</p>
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<p>Without some glimmering in my heart,<br>
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I could not raise this fervent prayer;<br>
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But, oh! a stronger light impart,<br>
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And in Thy mercy fix it there.</p>
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<p>While Faith is with me, I am blest;<br>
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It turns my darkest night to day;<br>
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But while I clasp it to my breast,<br>
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I often feel it slide away.</p>
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<p>Then, cold and dark, my spirit sinks,<br>
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To see my light of life depart;<br>
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And every fiend of Hell, methinks,<br>
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Enjoys the anguish of my heart.</p>
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<p>What shall I do, if all my love,<br>
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My hopes, my toil, are cast away,<br>
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And if there be no God above,<br>
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To hear and bless me when I pray?</p>
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<p>If this be vain delusion all,<br>
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If death be an eternal sleep,<br>
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And none can hear my secret call,<br>
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Or see the silent tears I weep!</p>
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<p>Oh, help me, God! For Thou alone<br>
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Canst my distracted soul relieve;<br>
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Forsake it not: it is Thine own,<br>
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Though weak, yet longing to believe.</p>
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<p>Oh, drive these cruel doubts away;<br>
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And make me know, that Thou art God!<br>
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A faith, that shines by night and day,<br>
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Will lighten every earthly load.</p>
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<p>If I believe that Jesus died,<br>
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And, waking, rose to reign above;<br>
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Then surely Sorrow, Sin, and Pride,<br>
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Must yield to Peace, and Hope, and Love.</p>
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<p>And all the blessèd words He said<br>
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Will strength and holy joy impart:<br>
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A shield of safety o’er my head,<br>
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A spring of comfort in my heart.</p>
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