One last song for Anointing of the Sick is in CWB II. It’s text is by Edward Hayes Plumptre and is here set to a tune just called MOZART (attributed to Mozart) but I also have seen it called GOSHEN and ST MICHAEL’S. The sheet music is at Hymnary.
CWB II uses a renovated the text, but it still smells of mothballs. If BIAB should leave Dvorak alone perhaps Mozart is a bit much as well.
Your hand, O Lord, in days of old
Were strong to heal and save;
They triumphed over ills and death,
O’er darkness and the grave.
To you they came, the blind, the deaf,
The palsied and the lame,
The leper set apart and shunned,
The sick and those in shame.And then your touch, Lord, brought life and health,
Gave speech and strength and sight;
And youth renewed and health restored
Claimed you, the Lord of light.
And so, O Lord, be near to bless,
Almighty now as then,
In ev’ry street,in ev’ry home,
In ev’ry troubled friend.O, be our mighty healer still, O Lord of life and death;
Restore and strengthen, soothe and bless,
With your almighty breath.
On hands that work and eyes that see.
Your healing wisdom pour,
That whole and sick and weak and strong
May praise you evermore.