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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: My spirit longs for thee (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: My spirit longs for thee

Topic: Holy Spirit

Writer: John Byrom

Composer: J Fillmore

Meter: 6s

Tune: Speer

Hymn Number: 591

Page Number: 221, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

MY SPIRIT long for thee

Within my troubled breast,

Though I unworthy be

Of so divine a Guest.



Of so divine a Guest

Unworthy though I be,

Yet has my heart no rest

Unless it come from thee.



Unless it come from thee,

In vain I look around;

In all that I can see

No rest is to be found.



No rest is to be found

But in thy blessed love:

O let my wish be crowned,

And send it from above.