Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: Long did I toil and knew no earthly rest
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 10s six lines
Tune: Skelton
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 298, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLong did I toil, and knew no earthly rest;
Far did I rove, and found no certain home;
At last I sought them in his sheltering breast,
Who opes his arms, and bids the weary come.
With him I found a home, a rest divine,
And I since then am his, and he is mine.
Yes, he is mine, and nought of earthly things,
Not all the charms of pleasure, wealth, or power,
The fame of heroes, or the pomp of kings,
Could tempt me to forgo his love an hour.
Go, worthless world, I cry with all that's thine!
Go, I my Savior's am, and he is mine.
The good I have is from his store supplied,
The ill is only what he deems the best;
He for my Friend, I'm rich with nought beside,
And poor without him, tho' of all possessed.
Changes may come, I take or I resign,
Content, while I am his, he is mine.