Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: O how I love thy holy law
Topic: The Holy Scriptures
Writer: <no first name given> Watts
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 14
Page Number: 012, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO, how I love they holy law!
'T is daily my delight;
And thence my meditations draw
Divine advice by night.
I wake before the dawn of day,
To meditate thy word;
My soul with longing melts away,
To hear they gospel, Lord.
How doth thy word my heart engage,
How well employ my tongue;
And in my tiresome pilgrimage,
Yields me a heavenly song.
When nature sinks, and spirits droop,
Thy promises of grace
Are pillars to support my hope,
And there I write thy praise.