LYRICS
| Meter: | 6 6 6 6 8 8
| | Writer(s): | James Drummond Burns
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1857
| | Bible Refs: | 1 Sa 3:10
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 361
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 474
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 617
| Complete Mission Praise
| 2000
| 253
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Edition
| 1904
| 584
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 523
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 94
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 848
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
|
| 1148
| STELBAP
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| 599
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 700
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 712
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 2028
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 359
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 655
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MUSIC
Baptist Hymn Book
| 474
| D
| TCH
| 251
| D
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 1148
| D
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 523
| D
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 848
| D
| Hymns of Faith
| 94
| Db
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. Hushed was the evening hymn,
The temple courts were dark,
The lamp was burning dim
Before the sacred ark:
When suddenly a voice divine
Rang through the silence
of the shrine.
2. The old man, meek and mild,
The priest of Israel slept;
His watch the temple child,
The little Levite, kept;
And what from Eli's
sense was sealed
the Lord to
Hannah's son revealed.
3. O give me Samuel's ear!
The open ear, O Lord;
Alive and quick to hear
Each whisper of thy word;
Like him to answer at Thy call,
And to obey thee first of all.
4. O give me Samuel's heart!
A lowly heart that waits
Where in thy house Thou art,
Or watches at Thy gates,
By day and night,
a heart that still
Moves at the breathing of Thy will.
5. O give me Samuel's mind!
A sweet unmurmuring faith,
Obedient and resigned
To Thee in life and death;
That I may read
with child-like eyes
Truths that are hidden
from the wise.
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