Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Dear Jesus ever at my side
Topic: Home/Youth and Age
Writer: <no first name given> Faber
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1212
Page Number: 726, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsDear Jesus! ever at my side,
How loving must thou be
To leave thy home in heaven to guard
A little child like me.
Thy beautiful and shining face
I see not, though so near;
The sweetness of thy soft low voice
I am too deaf to hear.
I can not feel thee touch my hand
With pressure light and mild,
To check me, as my mother did
When I was but a child.
But I have felt thee in my thoughts,
Fighting with sin for me;
And when my heart loves God, I know
The sweetness is from thee.
And when, dear Saviour! I kneel down
Morning and night to prayer,
Something there is within my heart
Which tells me thou art there.
Yes! when I pray, thou prayest too-
Thy prayer is all for me;
But when I sleep, thou sleepest not,
But watchest patiently.