The Hymnal ‎#328

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

4 Return, my Love, my Life;
Thy grace hath won my heart;
If Thou forgive, if Thou return,
I will no more depart.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: My Lord, my Life, my Love
• Author (based on): Rev. Isaac Watts
• Meter: S. M.
• Publication Date: 1950
• Topic: The Life In Christ: The Inner Life; Inner Life, The; Joy; Love and Communion
• Source: "The Yattendon Hymnal"

Tune Information

• Name: SELMA
• Adapter: Robert Archibald Smith (1780-1829)
• Meter: S. M.
• Key: E♭ Major
• Source: Traditional melody of the Isle of Arran