O dearest Lord, take Thou my heart (Benjamin Milgrove)
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- (Posted 2012-12-01) CPDL #27683:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2012-12-01). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 53 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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General Information
Title: O dearest Lord, take Thou my heart
Composer: Benjamin Milgrove
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: ATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
First published: 1768 in Sixteen hymns, no. 8
Description: The general congregation (sometimes divided into men and women) should sing the Air, accompanying harmonies to be taken by the choir.
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Original text and translations
English text
O dearest Lord, take Thou my heart;
Where can such sweetness be
As I have tasted in thy love,
As I have found in Thee?
If zeal, with knowledge in the heart,
Thy loving grace does give,
Safe in the bush unhurt, the whole
Will unconsumed live.
If love, that mildest flame, can rest
In hearts so cold as mine,
Come, gentle Saviour, to my breast,
And all its love be Thine.
The world does exercise its art
But tempts my heart in vain:
I have conveyed away that heart,
Ne'er to return again.
O 'tis in vain to seek for bliss,
For bliss can ne'er be found
'Til we arrive where Jesus is,
And tread on grace's ground.
O 'tis in vain to seek for bliss.
For bliss can ne'er be found
'Til we arrive where Jesus is,
And tread on grace's ground.
'Tis heaven on earth to taste his love,
To feel his quickening grace:
And all the heaven I hope above
Is but to see his face.
Continue still thy love, dear Lord,
Fast bind me to thy wounds:
There let me dwell, where all thy love
The raptured soul surrounds.