Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Oh tell me thou life and delight of my soul
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 11s and 10s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 675
Page Number: 394, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsOH tell me, thou life and delight of my soul,
Where the flocks of thy pasture are feeding;
I seek thy protection, I need thy control;
I would go where my shepherd is leading.
O, tell me, belov'd where the flocks are at rest,
Where the noontide will find them reposing?
The tempest now rages, my soul is distrest,
And the pathway of peace I am losing.
O, why should I stray with the flocks of thy foes,
'Mid the desert where now they are roving,
Where hunger and thirst, where afflictions and woes,
And temptations their ruin are proving?
O, when shall my woes and my wanderings cease?
And the follies that fill me with weeping!
Thou shepherd of Israel! restore me that peace,
Thou dost give to the flock thou art keeping.
A voice from the shepherd now bids thee return
By the way where the foot-prints are lying;
No longer to wander, no longer to mourn;
O, fair one! now homewards be flying.