Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Far from the world O Lord I flee
Topic: The New Life/Private Devotions
Writer: <no first name given> Cowper
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 985
Page Number: 584, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFar from the world, O Lord, I flee,
From strife and tumult far;
From scenes were Satan wages still
His most successful war.
The calm retreat, the silent shade,
With prayer and praise agreee;
And seem by thy sweet bounty made
For those who follow thee.
There, if thy Spirit touch the soul,
And grace here mean abode,
O, with what peace and joy, and love,
She then communes with God!
There, like the nightingale she pours
Her solitary lays;
Nor asks a witness of her song,
Nor thirsts for human praise.
Author and Guardian of my life!
Sweet Source of light divine,
And all harmounious names in one-
My Saviour!-thou art mine!
What thanks I owe thee, and what love-
A boundless, endless store-
Shall echo through the realms above,
When time shall be no more.