Text: | When shall Thy love constrain |
Author: | C. Wesley, 1707-1788 |
Tune: | TRENTHAM |
Composer: | R. Jackson, 1840- |
1 When shall Thy love constrain,
And force me to Thy breast?
When shall my soul return again
To her eternal rest?
2 Ah! what avails my strife,
My wand'ring to and fro?
Thou hast the words of endless life;
Ah! whither should I go?
3 Thy condescending grace
To me did freely move;
It calls me still to seek Thy face,
And stoops to ask my love.
4 And can I yet delay
My love, my life to give?
To tear my soul from earth away,
My Jesus to receive?
5 Nay, but I yield, I yield!
I can hold out no more;
I sink, by dying love compelled,
And own Thee conqueror.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | When shall Thy love constrain |
Author: | C. Wesley, 1707-1788 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | Christ: Condescension of; Christ: Love of; The Church and the Kingdom of God: Evangelism(4 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | TRENTHAM |
Composer: | R. Jackson, 1840- |
Meter: | S.M. |
Key: | F Major or modal |