1 My Maker and my King,
To thee my all I owe;
Thy constant goodness is the spring
Whence all my blessings flow.
2 The creature of thy hand,
On thee alone I live;
Thy countless benefits demand
More praise than I can give.
3 O let thy grace inspire
My soul with strength divine!
Let all my powers to thee aspire,
And all my days be thine.
Source: The Song Book of the Salvation Army #616
First Line: | My Maker and my King! |
Title: | Bounteous in Mercy and Goodness |
Author: | Anne Steele |
Meter: | 6.6.8.6 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
My Maker, and my King; to Thee my whole I owe. Anne Steele. [God, Creator and Benefactor.] First published in her Poems on Subjects chiefly Devotional, &c, 1760, vol. i. p. 48, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled, "God my Creator and Benefactor." It was repeated in her Poems, &c, 1780; and in Sedgwick's reprint of her Hymns, 1863. Two forms of this hymn are in common use (1) The first is the original in its full or abridged form. This came into common use through the Bristol Baptist Collection of Ash & Evans, 1769, where it is No. 25, and signed "T." (2) The second is:—
"My Maker and my King!
What thanks to Thee I owe."
This appeared in Hall's Mitre Hymn Book, 1836, No. 286, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines; and again in E. Osier's Church and King, June 1,1837. It was rewritten from Miss Steele's hymn by Osier for the Mitre Hymn Book, and should be given as Anne Steele, 1760; E. Osier, 1836.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)