Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Why is my heart so far from thee
Topic: The Christian
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 226
Page Number: 250, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhy is my heart so far from thee,
My God, my chief delight?
Why are my thoughts no more by day
With thee, no more by night?
Why should my foolish passions rove?
Where can such sweetness be
As I have tasted in thy love,
As I have found in thee?
When my forgetful soul renews
The savor of thy grace,
My heart presumes I cannot lose
The relish all my days.
But e'er one fleeting hour is past,
The flatt'ring would employs
Some sensual bait to seize my taste,
And to pollute my joys.
Wretch that I am, to wander thus,
In chase of false delight!
Let me be fasten'd to thy cross,
Rather than lose thy sight.
Make haste, my days, to reach the goal,
And bring my heart to rest
On the dear centre of my soul,
My God, my Saviour's breast.