Hymns We Love, for Sunday Schools and All Devotional Meetings ‎#46

46. I Have Been Alone With Jesus

1 I have been alone with Jesus with my head upon His breast,
For I was so very weary that I waited there to rest.
I have been alone with Jesus and He bade me stay awhile,
And I felt it very precious in the sunshine of His smile.

Refrain:
I’ve been alone with Jesus,
My blessed, blessed Jesus,
I’ve been alone with Jesus,
In the sunshine of his smile.

2 With a trembling heart I told Him while with joy I lingered there,
All the burden of my sorrow and my heavy weight of care;
How the voice of Satan’s whisp’rings often called me into sin,
And I asked him if I might not say forever there with Him. [Refrain]

3 Shall I tell you what He told me while I still was waiting there,
For it took away my troubles and it took away my care.
Oh! He told me how He loved me tho’ a wayward, erring child,
And I felt so very happy as He looked on me and smiled. [Refrain]

4 Then He told me I was welcome evermore with him to stay,
And He said that He would never cast His loving child away,
Lo! He said, I am thy Saviour, as a rock I firmly stand—
Come and rest beneath my shadow in this weary, thirsty land. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: I have been alone with Jesus with my head upon
• Title: I Have Been Alone With Jesus
• Refrain First Line: I’ve been alone with Jesus
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1907

Tune Information

• Name: [I have been alone with Jesus]
• Composer: Mrs. R. R. Forman