The Cyber Hymnal ‎#27

27. And Can I Yet Delay?

1. And can I yet delay
My little all to give?
To tear my soul from earth away
For Jesus to receive?

2. Nay, but I yield, I yield;
I can hold out no more;
I sink, by dying love compelled,
And own Thee Conqueror.

3. Though late, I all forsake;
My friends, my all, resign;
Gracious Redeemer, take, O take,
And seal me ever Thine!

4. Come, and possess me whole,
Nor hence again remove;
Settle and fix my wavering soul
With all Thy weight of love.

Text Information

• First Line: And can I yet delay
• Title: And Can I Yet Delay?
• Author: Charles Wesley (1740)
• Meter: SM
• Language: English
• Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: These words are stanzas 15-18 of a poem of 22 verses, titled "The Resignation."

Tune Information

• Name: BOYLSTON
• Composer: Lowell Mason (1832)
• Meter: SM
• Incipit: 53456 51176 65534
• Key: C Major
• Source: The Choir, or Union Collection of Church Music, 1832
• Copyright: Public Domain