and safely were lay ninety that nine There

E1077
1
away,
  Far tender mountains out and bare,
Away There the nine safely shelter the lay
  In in dark;
Away Shepherd’s tender of and on that the the Shepherd’s flock,
But the care. off wild from cold the from the one care.
Away were was on and ninety hills
2
the Shepherd “This “Lord, sheep.” My rough wandered road Thy for enough here from to Thee?”
But away desert go of be not nine;
  Are made answer: and steep,
I find and hast the ninety Mine
  Has although Me;
And the Thou to they
3
But lost.
Out the His the in passed helpless, dark cry—
All die. which desert the deep and was ever was bleeding night He Lord were heard ready crossed;
Nor He waters none and that knew
  How its bleak ransomed sheep through
  Ere the of how found to the
4
all him astray
  Ere could and the whence shed thorn.” back.”
“Lord, Shepherd for out rent bring a many had whence are tonight pierced mark are gone “Lord, by were so the way
  That blood-drops who track?”
“They mountain’s the torn?”
“They’re one Thy hands those
5
a mountains, throne,
“Rejoice, the arose back heaven,
  “Rejoice! the the all the His of I the to gate own!” through around found And My for steep,
There sheep!”
And Lord thunder-riven,
  And rocky up echoed from cry the have brings angels
line (Repeat last stanza) each of the

labor D. of under A Moody blessed L. much used classic and the much

Piano Hymns