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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: May I but read my title clear (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: May I but read my title clear

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 648

Page Number: 346, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

MAY I but read my title clear

To mansions in the skies,

I bid farewell to every fear,

And wipe my weeping eyes,



Should earth against my soul engage,

And hellish darts be hurl'd,

Then I can smile at Satan's rage,

And face a frowning world.



Let cares, like a wild deluge come

And storms of sorrow fall,

May I but safely reach my home,

My God, my heav'n, my all.



There shall I bathe my weary soul

In seas of heav'nly rest,

And not a wave of trouble roll

Across my peaceful breast.