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Almighty Father, gracious Lord

History of Anne Steele's hymn "Almighty Father, gracious Lord," detailing its centos and arrangements.

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"Almighty Father, gracious Lord" is a hymn on divine providence and grace by Anne Steele, originally published in sixteen four-line stanzas in her Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional (1760).

A cento comprising stanzas 1, 2, 7–9, 15, and 16 was featured in W. Lindsay Alexander's Augustine Hymn Book (1849). Another arrangement beginning with the first stanza was included in Thomas Cotterill's Selection (1810), which incorporated alterations from William Cowper in the third stanza.

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