The phrase "bleak" resonates through 20 hymns, touching hearts across generations.
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In the bleak midwinter,
Frosty wind made moan,...
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In the bleak midwinter,
Frosty wind made moan,
...More radiant grows and more doth win,
Which else shows waterish, bleak, and thin.
The life and doctrine blent in one...
More radiant grows and more doth win,
Which else shows waterish, bleak, and thin.
The life and doctrine blent in one
...Shall roll its tide between.
No bleak cliffs upward towering,
Shall bound our eager sight;...
Shall roll its tide between.
No bleak cliffs upward towering,
Shall bound our eager sight;
...With hands that are patient and kind;
Alike on the fertile and bleak place it falls,
What soil in your heart will it find?...
With hands that are patient and kind;
Alike on the fertile and bleak place it falls,
What soil in your heart will it find?
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Over the mountains so bleak and so cold,
Far from the beautiful city of gold;...
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Over the mountains so bleak and so cold,
Far from the beautiful city of gold;
...Firmly stand for God, in the world’s mad strife,
Tho’ the bleak winds roar, and the waves beat high;
’Tis the Rock alone giveth strength and life,...
Firmly stand for God, in the world’s mad strife,
Tho’ the bleak winds roar, and the waves beat high;
’Tis the Rock alone giveth strength and life,
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Thro’ the bleak and dreary street,
Where the cold winds keenly blow,...
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Thro’ the bleak and dreary street,
Where the cold winds keenly blow,
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There in the narrow manger, cold and bleak
My Lord, Thou art;...
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There in the narrow manger, cold and bleak
My Lord, Thou art;
...When the little lambs are roving,
Over hillsides bleak and bare,
Into pastures green the shepherd...
When the little lambs are roving,
Over hillsides bleak and bare,
Into pastures green the shepherd
...I was bowing ’neath a load
On sin’s bleak and rugged road,
When it pierced the gloom in beauty supreme....
I was bowing ’neath a load
On sin’s bleak and rugged road,
When it pierced the gloom in beauty supreme.
...When the little lambs are roving,
Over hillsides bleak and bare,
Into pastures green the shepherd...
When the little lambs are roving,
Over hillsides bleak and bare,
Into pastures green the shepherd
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Thro’ the bleak and dreary street,
Where the cold winds keenly blow,...
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Thro’ the bleak and dreary street,
Where the cold winds keenly blow,
...In fear of my life with no answers,
My future so bleak and unsure.
“Where are you,” came the sweetest voice...
In fear of my life with no answers,
My future so bleak and unsure.
“Where are you,” came the sweetest voice
...Offer Christ, the Crucified;
Show the cross on bleak Golgotha,
Where He suffered, bled and died....
Offer Christ, the Crucified;
Show the cross on bleak Golgotha,
Where He suffered, bled and died.
...In union fair their sweets disclose.
Where bleak a mountain stood,
All bare and disarrayed,...
In union fair their sweets disclose.
Where bleak a mountain stood,
All bare and disarrayed,
...Thy bounteous hand with food can bless
The bleak and lonely wilderness;
And Thou hast taught us, Lord! to pray...
Thy bounteous hand with food can bless
The bleak and lonely wilderness;
And Thou hast taught us, Lord! to pray
...I trust in God, I know He cares for me;
On mountain bleak or on the stormy sea;
Tho’ billows roll, He keeps my soul;...
I trust in God, I know He cares for me;
On mountain bleak or on the stormy sea;
Tho’ billows roll, He keeps my soul;
...With Thee in the obscurest cell,
On some bleak mountain would I dwell,
Rather than pompous courts behold,...
With Thee in the obscurest cell,
On some bleak mountain would I dwell,
Rather than pompous courts behold,
...A stranger to His grace,
But o’er the mountains bleak and cold
He sought my steps to trace;...
A stranger to His grace,
But o’er the mountains bleak and cold
He sought my steps to trace;
...The storm of sorrow howls around
That bleak and cheerless tree,
Where hangs the Sufferer, throned and crowned—...
The storm of sorrow howls around
That bleak and cheerless tree,
Where hangs the Sufferer, throned and crowned—
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