Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: My God my portion and my love (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book

Date: 1829

Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams

Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell

First Line: My God my portion and my love

Topic: Rejoicing

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 139

Page Number: 151, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

My God, my portion, and my love,

My everlasting all;

I've none but thee in heaven above,

Or on this earthly ball.



What empty things are all the skies

And this inferior clod!

There's nothing here deserves my joys,

There's nothing like my God.



In vain the bright, the burning sun,

Scatters his feeble light;

'Tis thy sweet beams create my noon,

If thou withdraw, 'tis night.



And whilst upon my restless bed,

Among the shades I roll,

If my Redeemer show his head,

'Tis morning with my soul.



To thee I owe my wealth and friends

And health, and safe abode;

Thanks to thy name for meaner things

But they are not my God.



How vain a toy is glittering wealth,

If once compar'd with thee;

Or what's my safety or my health,

Or all my friends, to me?



Were I possessor of the earth,

And call'd the stars my own;

Without thy graces and thyself,

I were a wretch undone.



Let others stretch their arms like seas,

And grasp in all the shore;

Grant me the visits of thy face,

And I desire no more.