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Text:My Lord, My Life, My Love
Adapter:Robert S. Bridges
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:SONG 20 (Gibbons)
Composer:Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625
Media:MIDI file

4281. My Lord, My Life, My Love

1. My Lord, my life, my love,
To Thee, to Thee I call;
I cannot live if Thou remove:
Thou art my joy, my all.

2. My only sun to cheer
The darkness where I dwell;
The best and only true delight
My song hath found to tell.

3. To Thee in very Heaven
The angels owe their bliss;
To Thee the saints, whom Thou hast called
Where perfect pleasure is.

4. And how shall man, Thy child,
Without Thee happy be,
Who hath no comfort nor desire
In all the world but Thee?

5. Return, my love, my life;
Thy grace hath won my heart;
If Thou forgive, if Thou return,
I will no more depart.

Text Information
First Line: My Lord, my life, my love
Title: My Lord, My Life, My Love
Adapter: Robert S. Bridges (1899)
Author: Isaac Watts
Meter: SM
Language: English
Source: Yattendon Hymnal, by Robert S. Bridges, 1899
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: SONG 20 (Gibbons)
Composer: Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625
Meter: SM
Incipit: 55671 21317 65776
Key: b minor
Copyright: Public Domain



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