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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Early my God without delay (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Early my God without delay

Topic: Public Worship/Opening Hymns

Writer: <no first name given> Watts

Composer:

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Hymn Number: 698

Page Number: 417, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Early, my God, without delay

I haste to seek thy face;

My thirsty spirit faints away

Without thy cheering grace.



So pilgrims on the scorching sand,

Beneath a burning sky,

Long for a cooling stream at hand,

And they must drink or die.



Not life itself, with all its joys,

Can my best passions move,

Or raise so high my cheerful voice

As thy forgiving love.



Thus, till my last expiring day,

I'll bless my God and King;

Thus will I lift my hands to pray,

And tune my lips to sing.