View source for I'll Praise My Maker while I've Breath

See also [[Praise Ye the Lord]], as some of the lyrics are the same.  In fact, I'm quite surprised this hymn isn't mentioned in the LDS books about the hymns in conjunction with [[Praise Ye the Lord]].  It is interesting that [[Isaac Watts]] wrote the lyrics for both songs.

=Tunes=
*Tune from [[Hymns: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1948]] (no. 254), by [[J.G. Fones]]

=Lyrics=
*Poet: [[Isaac Watts]]
*Copyright: [[Public Domain]]
==Lyrics from [[A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe, 1840]]==
Hymn 53<br>
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1. I'll praise my Maker while I've breath;<br>
And when my voice is lost in death,<br>
Praise shall employ my nobler powers;<br>
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,<br>
While life, and thought, and being last,<br>
Or immortality endures.

2. Happy the man whose hopes rely<br>
On Israel's God: he made the sky,<br>
And earth, and seas, with all their train;<br>
His truth for ever stands secure;<br>
He saves the opprest, he feeds the poor,<br>
And none shall find his promise vain.

3. The Lord pours eye-sight on the blind;<br>
The Lord supports the fainting mind;<br>
He sends the labouring conscience peace;<br>
He helps the stranger in distress,<br>
The widow, and the fatherless,<br>
And grants the prisoner sweet release.

4. I'll praise him while he lends me breath,<br>
And when my voice is lost in death,<br>
Praise shall employ my nobler powers;<br>
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,<br>
While life, and thought, and being last,<br>
Or immortality endures.

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