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All my life I had a longing

Author: Clara Tear Williams (1875)
Tune: SATISFIED
Published in 98 hymnals

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	SATISFIED (Baptist 2008 - 621)

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1 All my life-long I had panted
for a drink from some cool spring
that I hoped would quench
the burning of the thirst I felt within.

Refrain:
Hallelujah! I have found Him-
whom my soul so long has craved!
Jesus satisfies my longings;
through His blood I now am saved.

2 Feeding on the husks around me
till my strength was almost gone,
longed my soul for something better,
only still to hunger on. [Refrain]

3 Poor I was, and sought for riches,
something that would satisfy;
but the dust I gathered round me
only mocked my soul's sad cry. [Refrain]

4 Well of water, ever springing,
Bread of Life, so rich and free,
untold wealth that never faileth,
my Redeemer is to me. [Refrain]

Source: Our Great Redeemer's Praise #573

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Author: Clara Tear Williams

Williams, Mrs. Clara Tear. (Painesville, Ohio, September 22, 1858--July 1, 1937, Houghton, New York). As a young woman she was a school teacher. She suffered an attack of tuberculosis but fully recovered from it and for a number of years engaged in evangelistic work in several North Central states. In 1895 she married the Reverend W.H. Williams, a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and until his death thirty years later labored with him in serving churches in New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. She was a member of the Commission of her church which compiled Sacred Hymns and Tunes, 1897. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives. Photocopied photos (uncited) of Clara Tear Williams and pages from a manuscript family history by Frank W. Tear are also av… Go to person page >

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First Line:	All my life I had a longing
Title:	Satisfied
Author:	Clara Tear Williams (1875)
Meter:	8.7.8.7 with refrain
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Hallelujah! I have found Him
Notes:	Spanish translation: See "En mi sed siempre he buscado" by Adolfo Robleto
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

About 1875, I was helping in meetings in Troy, Ohio, where Professor R. E. Hudson conducted the singing, when, just before retiring one night, he asked me to write a song for a book he was preparing to publish. Before sleeping, I wrote Satisfied. In the morning, he composed the music.

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