Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Lord all I am is known to thee (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book

Date: 1829

Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams

Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell

First Line: Lord all I am is known to thee

Topic: Praise

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

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 196

Page Number: 221, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Lord all I am is known to thee,

In vain my soul would try

To shun thy presence, or to flee

The notice of thine eye.



Thy all surrounding sight surveys

My rising and my rest,

My public walks, my private ways,

The secrets of my breast.



My thoughts lie open to thee, Lord, 

Before they're form'd within,

And ere my lips pronounce the word,

Thou know'st the sense I mean.



O wondrous knowledge, deep and high!

Where can a creature hide?

Within thy circling arms I lie

Beset on every side.



So let thy grace surround me still,

And like a bulwark prove,

To guard my soul from every ill,

Secur'd by sov'reign love.