Text: | My Gracious Lord, I Own Thy Right |
Author: | Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 |
Tune: | QUEBEC (HESPERUS) |
Composer: | Henry Baker, 1835-1910 |
1 My gracious Lord, I own Thy right
To every service I can pay,
And call it my supreme delight
To hear Thy dictates, and obey.
2 What is my being but for Thee,
Its sure support, its noblest end?
Thy ever smiling ace to see,
And serve the cause of such a Friend.
3 I would not breathe for worldly joy,
Or to increase my worldly good;
Nor future days nor powers employ
To spread a sounding name abroad.
4 ’Tis to my Saviour I would live,
To Him who for my ransom died;
Nor could untainted Eden give
Such bliss as blossoms at His side.
5 His work my hoary age shall bless,
When youthful vigour is no more;
And my last hour of life confess
His love hath animating power.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | My gracious Lord, I own Thy right |
Title: | My Gracious Lord, I Own Thy Right |
Author: | Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2006 |
Topic: | Devotional; Inner Life; The Christian Way of Life: Assurance and Trust |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | QUEBEC (HESPERUS) |
Composer: | Henry Baker, 1835-1910 |
Incipit: | 33351 22355 54234 |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Copyright: | Music copyright by W. Garret Horder |
Notes: | Now Public Domain |