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Text:O Thou best Gift of Heaven!
Author:Nicholls
Tune:DONUM COELI
Composer:George C. F. Haas

381b. O Thou best Gift of Heaven!

1 O Thou best Gift of Heaven!
Thou Who Thyself hast given,--
For Thou hast died!
This hast Thou done for me:
What have I done for Thee,
Thou Crucified?

2 I long to serve Thee more:--
Reveal an open door,
Saviour, to me;
Then, counting all but loss,
I'll glory in Thy Cross,
And follow Thee.

3 Do Thou but point the way,
And give me strength t'obey;
Thy will be mine:
Then can I think it joy
To suffer or to die,
Since I am Thine.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: O Thou best Gift of Heaven!
Author: Nicholls (1837)
Meter: 6 6 4, 6 6 4
Language: English
Publication Date: 1917
Topic: The Christian Life: Christian Service
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: DONUM COELI
Composer: George C. F. Haas (1915)
Meter: 6 6 4, 6 6 4
Key: d minor
Notes: Public Domain.



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