Just for today (Jane Bingham Abbott)

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  • (Posted 2023-04-02)  CPDL #73284:     
Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2023-04-02).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 65 kB   Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Arranged by John A. West (1853 - 1913) for SATB chorus and keyboard. This arrangement was first published in 1908.

General Information

Title: Just for today
Composer: Jane Bingham Abbott
Lyricist: Sibyl F. Partridge
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Unknown
Genre: SacredSacred song

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1894
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Original text and translations

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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.
   Help me to labor earnestly and duly pray;
   Let me be kind in word and deed, Father, today.

2. Let me no wrong or idle word unthinking say;
   Set Thou a seal upon my lips through all today.
   Let me in season, Lord, be grave, in season gay;
   Let me be faithful to Thy grace, dear Lord, today.

3. And if, today, this life of mine should ebb away,
   Give me Thy sacrament divine, Father, today.
   So for tomorrow and its needs I do not pray;
   Still keep me, guide me, love me, Lord, through each day.