Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Fountain of light and living breath
Topic: The New Life/Trust and Joy
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM six lines
Tune:
Hymn Number: 764
Page Number: 446, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFountain of light, and living breath,
Whose mercies never fail nor fade,
Fill me with life that hath no death,
Fill me with light that hath no shade;
Appoint the remnant of my days
To see thy power, and sing thy praise.
O Lord, our God, before whose throne
Stand storms and fire, O what shall we
Return to heaven, that is our own,
When all the world belongs to thee?
We have no offering to impart,
But praises, and a broken heart.
O thou who sittest in heaven and seest
My deeds without, my thoughts within,
Be thou my prince, be thou my priest,--
Command my soul, and cure my sin:
How bitter my afflictions be
I care not, so I rise to thee.
What I possess, or what I crave,
Brings no content, great God, to me,
If what I would or what I have
Be not possessed and blest in thee:
What I enjoy, O, make it mine,
In making me--that have it--thine.