Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: My God my portion and my love (FL)

Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns

Date: 1818

Compiler: Rice Haggard

Publisher/Printer: John Norvell

First Line: My God my portion and my love

Topic: Rejoicing in God

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 90

Page Number: 093, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

My God, my portion, and my love,

My everlasting all;

I've none but thee in heaven above,

Or on this earthly ball.



What empty things are all the skies,

And this inferior clod!

There's nothing here deserves my joys

There's nothing like my God.



In vain the bright, the burning sun,

Scatters his feeble light;

'Tis thy sweet beams create my noon,

If thou withdraw, 'tis night.



And whilst upon my restless bed,

Among the shades I roll;

If my Redeemer show his head,

'Tis morning with my soul.



To thee I owe my wealth and friends,

And health and safe abode;

Thanks to thy name for meaner things,

But they are not my God.



How vain a toy is glittering wealth,

If once compared to thee;

Or what's my safety or my health,

Or all my friends, to me.



Were I possessor of the earth,

And called the stars my own;

Without thy graces and thyself,

I were a wretch undone.



Let others stretch their arms like seas,

And grasp in all the shore;

Grant me the visits of thy face,

And I desire no more.