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Text: | My God! permit me not to be |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | ROSE HILL |
Composer: | Joseph E. Sweetser |
1 My God! permit me not to be
A stranger to myself and Thee:
Amidst a thousand thoughts I rove,
Forgetful of my highest love.
2 Why should my passions mix with earth,
And thus debase my heavenly birth?
Why should I cleave to things below,
And let my God, my Saviour, go?
3 Call me away from flesh and sense;
Thy sovereign word can draw me thence:
I would obey the voice divine,
And all inferior joys resign.
4 Be earth, with all her cares, withdrawn;
Let noise and vanity be gone;
In secret silence of the mind,
My heaven, and there my God, I find.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | My God! permit me not to be |
Author: | Isaac Watts (1709) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1899 |
Topic: | Communion: With Christ; Communion: With God; Fellowship with God(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ROSE HILL |
Composer: | Joseph E. Sweetser |