LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 7 8 7 D
| | Writer(s): | Christopher Smart
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: |
| | Bible Refs: |
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 75
| Hymnal - A Worship Book
| 1992
| 200
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard
| 1983
| 527
| New English Hymnal
| 1985
| 41
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 491
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MUSIC
Hymns and Songs
| 22
| F
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 380
| G
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Standard
| 274
| G
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. Where is this stupendous stranger?
Prophets, shepherds, kings, advise.
Lead me to my Master's manger,
show me where my Savior lies.
O Most Mighty! O Most Holy!
Far beyond the seraph's thought:
art thou then so weak and lowly
as unheeded prophets taught?
2. O the magnitude of meekness!
Worth from worth immortal sprung;
O the strength of infant weakness,
if eternal is so young!
God all-bounteous, all-creative,
whom no ills from good dissuade,
is incarnate, and a native
of the very world he made.
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