The Cyber Hymnal ‎#4430

4430. My Lord, How Full of Sweet Content

1. My Lord, how full of sweet content;
I pass my years of banishment!
Where’er I dwell, I dwell with Thee,
In Heaven, in earth, or on the sea.

2. To me remains nor place nor time;
My country is in every clime;
I can be calm and free from care
On any shore, since God is there.

3. While place we seek, or place we shun
The soul finds happiness in none;
But with a God to guide our way,
’Tis equal joy, to go or stay.

4. Could I be cast where Thou are not,
That were indeed a dreadful lot:
But regions none remote I call,
Secure of finding God in all.

Text Information

• First Line: My Lord, how full of sweet content
• Title: My Lord, How Full of Sweet Content
• Author: Madame de la Mothe Guyon (1722)
• Translator (from French): William Cowper (1801)
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Poésies et Cantiques Spirituels, 1722; translation in his posthumous Poems, 1801.\
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: The lyrics may be partly autobiographical, reflecting Guyon's periods of imprisonment and banishment.

Tune Information

• Name: HAMBURG
• Composer: Lowell Mason (1824)
• Meter: LM
• Incipit: 11232 34323 33343
• Key: F Major
• Source: First ap­peared in The Bos­ton Han­del and Haydn So­ci­e­ty Col­lect­ion of Church Mu­sic, third ed­i­tion, 1825
• Copyright: Public Domain