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Text:My spirit longs for thee
Author:John Byrom, 1692-1763
Tune:ECCLES
Composer:Bertram Luard-Selby, 1853-1918

120. My spirit longs for thee

1 My spirit longs for thee
within my troubled breast,
though I unworthy be
of so divine a guest.

2 Of so divine a guest
unworthy though I be,
yet has my heart no rest
unless it come from thee.

3 Unless it come from thee,
in vain I look around;
in all that I can see
no rest is to be found.

4 No rest is to be found
but in thy blessèd love:
O let my wish be crowned,
and send it from above!

Text Information
First Line: My spirit longs for thee
Author: John Byrom, 1692-1763
Meter: 6.6.6.6
Language: English
Publication Date: 2010
Topic: Hymns for the Church Year: Lent
Tune Information
Name: ECCLES
Composer: Bertram Luard-Selby, 1853-1918
Meter: 6.6.6.6
Key: G Major



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