Christ My Song - 904

My Saviour, I am weary - The soul's resting-place
(James George Deck/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

The soul's resting-place.

1. My Saviour, I am weary
  of everything but thee;
all else is dark and dreary,
  a wilderness to me. PDF - Midi

2. By sin I am oppressèd,
  by Satan sorely tried,
with self-love all distressèd:
  in thee myself I hide.

3. Thy precious blood, it healeth
  the wounds that sin has made;
my heart its comfort feeleth,
  whene'er it is afraid.

4. But oh! the hope of being
  for ever, Lord, with thee;
the joyful hope of seeing
  the face once marred for me: –

5. It fills my heart with comfort,
  it fills my lips with praise;
so that amidst my sorrow
  a joyful song I raise.

6. No more shall Satan tempt me,
  no more shall sin deceive;
no more thy heart, my Saviour,
  shall I by folly grieve.

7. Oh! then I shall be like thee,
  and in thine image shine:
with deepest joy confessing,
  the glory's only thine.

James George Deck, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1906, 91-92.

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