MY DAUGHTER

IS IT YOUR EMBRACE, FATHER, I FEEL THIS NIGHT
IS IT YOUR GAZE THAT WARMS THIS CHILD OF PLIGHT
IS IT YOURS, FATHER, THE WHISPER I HEAR
CAN IT BE YOU, LORD, HOLDING ME NEAR

DO YOU SEE MY FAULT, MY FEAR, MY SHAME
WILL YOU REBUKE THE DAUGHTER YOU CALL BY NAME
WILL YOU GENTLY LIFT THIS HEAD BOWED SO LOW
IN YOUR FATHER’S HEART WILL GRACIOUS FORGIVENESS FLOW

ANSWER

MY CHILD, MY DAUGHTER, MY PRECIOUS DOVE
IN HEAVEN YOU WERE FORMED BY THIS FATHER’S LOVE
I DO ALL FOR YOUR TRUST, YOUR LOVE AND YOUR WILL
I AM YOUR FATHER, BE YOU NOW MEEK AND STILL

I SING A SONG TO MY DAUGHTER’S HEART
IT’S THERE SHE WILL LISTEN AND MY WORDS IMPART
ALL CIMFORT, ALL TRUST, ALL LOVE THIS FATHER KNOWS
TO TEACH HER AND TO NOURISH HERWHILE SHE GROWS

THRU AGES AND AGES I HAVE BEHELD YOUR LIFE
CHOSEN HAVE YOU CHILD PATHS NOT WITHOUT STRIFE
MOUNTAINS I’VE MOVED AND RIVERS I’VE PARTED
ALL TO REMIND YOU OF OUR LOVE MOST GUARDED

STAY WITH ME DAUGHTER, IN MY STRENGTH YOU WILL FLOURISH
NESTLE IN DEEP, HEAR MY WORDSTHAT ENCOURAGE
MORE MOUTAINS, MORE RIVERS, MORE TEARS, MORE PAIN
WILL NOT OVERCOME YOU BY THE WISDOM YOU GAIN

STAY WITH ME ALWAYS, NO DISTANCE TO BE
CLING STEADFASTLY, CHILD YOUR FATHER IS HE
RULER OF THE UNIVERSE, THE MOON AND THE STAR
WITH LOUD VOICE PROCLAIMS WHOSE DAUGHTER YOU ARE