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Text: | My God, permit me not to be |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Tune: | BACA |
Composer: | William B. Bradbury |
1 My God, permit me not to be
A stranger to myself and thee;
Amidst a thousand thoughts I rove,
Forgetful of my highest love.
2 Why should my passions mix with earth.
And thus debase my heavenly birth?
Why should I cleave to things below,
And let my God, my Saviour, go?
3 Call me away from flesh and sense;
One sovereign word can draw me thence:
I would obey the voice divine,
And all inferior joys resign.
4 Be earth, with all her scenes, withdrawn;
Let noise and vanity be gone;
In secret silence of the mind,
My heaven, and there my God, I find.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | My God, permit me not to be |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Publication Date: | 1886 |
Topic: | The Christian: Unfaithfulness Lamented |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BACA |
Composer: | William B. Bradbury |
Meter: | L. M. |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: #538, 101, or 136. |