Church Book ‎#480

480. God of my life, to Thee I call!

1 God of my life, to Thee I call!
Afflicted at Thy feet I fall;
When the great water-floods prevail,
Leave not my trembling heart to fail!

2 Friend of the friendless and the faint!
Where should I lodge my deep complaint?
Where but with Thee, whose open door
Invites the helpless and the poor?

3 Did ever mourner plead with Thee,
And Thou refuse that mourner's plea?
Does not the word still fixed remain,
That none shall seek Thy face in vain?

4 That were a grief I could not bear,
Didst Thou not hear and answer prayer;
But a prayer-hearing, answering God
Supports me under every load.

5 Fair is the lot that's cast for me;
I have an Advocate with Thee;
They whom the world caresses most
Have no such privilege to boast.

6 Poor though I be, despised, forgot,
Yet God, my God, forgets me not;
And he is safe, and must succeed,
For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead.

Text Information

• First Line: God of my life, to Thee I call!
• Author: William Cowper (1779)
• Meter: L. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1890
• Topic: The Cross and Comfort; The Cross and Comfort: In Outward Suffering; Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity; Twenty First Sunday after Trinity
• Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate tune: #145 or #371

Tune Information

• Name: ANGELUS
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: E♭ Major
• Notes: Now Public Domain. Composer from index: J. Scheffler (Angelus), 1657