Text: | Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken |
Author: | Henry F. Lyte, 1793-1847 |
Tune: | ELLESDIE |
Arranger: | Hubert P. Main, 1839-1926 |
Composer: | Wolfgang A. Mozart, 1756-1791 |
1 Jesus, I my cross have taken,
All to leave, and follow Thee;
Destitute, despised, forsaken,
Thou, from hence, my all shalt be:
Perish every fond ambition,
All I've sought or hoped, or known;
Yet how rich is my condition:
God and heaven are still my own!
2 Let the world despise and leave me,
They have left my Saviour, too;
Human hearts and looks deceive me;
Thou art not, like man, untrue;
And, while Thou shalt smile upon me,
God of wisdom, love, and might,
Foes may hate, and friends may shun me;
Show Thy face, and all is bright.
3 Man may trouble and distress me,
'Tis but drive me to Thy breast;
Life with trials hard may press me,
Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.
O 'tis not in grief to harm me
While Thy love is left to me;
O 'twere not in joy to charm me,
Were that joy unmixed with Thee.
4 Haste thee on from grace to glory,
Armed by faith, and winged by prayer;
Heaven's eternal day's before thee,
God's own hand shall guide thee there.
Soon shall close thy earthly mission;
Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days;
Hope shall change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.
AMEN.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Jesus, I my cross have taken |
Title: | Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken |
Author: | Henry F. Lyte, 1793-1847 |
Meter: | 8 7 8 7 D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Topic: | Consecration |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ELLESDIE |
Composer: | Wolfgang A. Mozart, 1756-1791 |
Arranger: | Hubert P. Main, 1839-1926 |
Meter: | 8 7 8 7 D. |
Key: | A♭ Major |