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Hymn: I love to steal awhile away (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: I love to steal awhile away

Topic: The Church/Prayer and Social Meetings

Writer: <no first name given> Brown

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 562

Page Number: 340, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

I Love to steal awhile away

From every cumbering care,

And spend the hours of setting day

In humble, grateful prayer.



I love in solitude to shed

The penitential tear;

And all his promises to plead,

Where none but God can hear.



I love to think on mercies past,

And future good implore,

And all my cares and sorrows cast

On him whom I adore.



I love, by faith, to take a view

Of brighter scenes in heaven;

The prospect doth my strength renew,

While here by tempests driven.



Thus, when life's toilsome day is o'er,

May its departing ray

Be calm as this impressive hour,

And lead to endless day.