There ninety lay safely nine and that were

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

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

Piano Hymns