LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 4 8 4
| | Writer(s): | Sybil Farish Partridge & Mary Xavier
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1877
| | Bible Refs: | Mt 6:34; 2 Co 4:16
| Baptist Hymnal
| 1956
| 339
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 57
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 532
| Hymns Old & New, Complete Anglican Editi
| 2000
| 410
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
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| 638
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 676
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 670
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 36
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MUSIC
Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 638
| Eb
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Alternate Tunes
| VINCENT | 8 4 8 4 D | Horatio Richmond Palmer | | RAYMOND | 8 4 8 4 | Thomas Tertius Noble |
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| 1. Lord, for tomorrow and its needs
I do not pray;
Keep me, my God, from stain of sin
just for today.
2. Help me to labor earnestly
and duly pray;
Let me be kind in word and deed,
Father, today.
3. Let me no wrong or idle word
unthinking say;
Set Thou a seal upon my lips
through all today.
4. Let me in season, Lord, be grave,
in season gay;
Let me be faithful to Thy grace,
dear Lord, today.
5. And if, today, this life of mine
should ebb away,
Give me Thy sacrament divine,
Father, today.
6. So for tomorrow and its needs
I do not pray;
Still keep me, guide me, love me,
Lord, through each day.
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