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Text: | I Love to Steal Awhile Away |
Author: | Phoebe (Hinsdale) Brown |
Tune: | ST. AGNES |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes |
1 I love to steal awhile away
From ev'ry cumb'ring care,
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
2 I love in solitude to shed
The penitential tear,
And all His promises to plead
Where none but God can hear.
3 I love to think of mercies past,
And future good implore,
And all my cares and sorrows cast
On Him whom I adore.
4 I love by faith to take a view
Of brighter scenes in heaven;
The prospect doth my strength renew,
While here by tempests driven.
5 Thus when life's toilsome day is o'er,
May its departing ray
Be calm as this impressive hour,
And lead to endless day.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | I love to steal awhile away |
Title: | I Love to Steal Awhile Away |
Author: | Phoebe (Hinsdale) Brown (1824) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1937 |
Topic: | Occasional: Evening; Evening |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. AGNES |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes (1866) |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | G Major |