A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) 186. My God, my Portion, and my Love

Text:	God my only Happiness
Author:	Watts

186. God my only Happiness

1 My God, my Portion, and my Love,
My everlasting All,
I’ve none but thee in heaven above,
Or on this earthly ball.

2 [What empty things are all the skies,
And this inferior clod!
There’s nothing here deserves my joys;
There’s nothing like my God.]

3 [In vain the bright, the burning sun
Scatters his feeble light;
’Tis thy sweet beams create my noon;
If thou withdraw, ’tis night.]

4 [And whilst upon my restless bed,
Amongst the shades I roll,
If my Redeemer shows his head,
’Tis morning with my soul.]

5 To thee we owe our wealth, and friends,
And health, and safe abode;
Thanks to thy name for meaner things,
But they are not my God.

6 [How vain a toy is glittering wealth,
If once compared to thee!
Or what’s my safety or my health,
Or all my friends to me?]

7 [Were I possessor of the earth,
And called the stars my own,
Without thy graces and thyself,
I were a wretch undone!]

8 Let others stretch their arms like seas,
And grasp in all the shore;
Grant me the visits of thy face,
And I desire no more.

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