The Christian — Faith, Hope, and Charity

My faith looks up to thee

No. 684
Metre 6s & 4s.
Tune OLIVET.
Words Ray Palmer.
Music Lowell Mason.
Key E-flat major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 2/2
3 stanzas

Words

My faith looks up to thee,Thou Lamb of Calvary,Saviour divine!Now hear me while I pray,Take all my guilt away,O, let me from this dayBe wholly thine!

May thy rich grace impartStrength to my fainting heart,My zeal inspire;As thou hast died for me,O, may my love to thee,Pure, warm, and changeless be,—A living fire!

While life's dark maze I tread,And griefs around me spread,Be thou my guide;Bid darkness turn to day,Wipe sorrow's tears away,Nor let me ever strayFrom thee aside.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHRISTIAN—FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY.»; hymn number «684» (large), tune name «OLIVET. 6s & 4s.» centred over the music (condensed capitals), «LOWELL MASON.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear: under system 1 «1. My faith looks up to thee, Thou Lamb of Cal - va - ry, Saviour di - vine!» («Saviour» one word under two notes); under system 2 a brace holding two lines under the repeated bars 7–8 («Now hear me while I pray,» / «Take all my guilt a - way,»), then «O, let me from this day Be whol - ly thine!» at the level of the second bracketed line. Stanza 1 is given below in verse order (the two bracketed lines are lines 4 and 5, sung on the repeat). Stanzas 2–3 are printed as text (left and right column) under the italic reference line «155, 127.» (= the same words may be sung to the tunes of hymns 155 or 127), numbered «2», «3» without periods (written «2.», «3.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book); lines 3 and 7 indented, as reproduced below. «Ray Palmer.» in italics after stanza 3. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» («inspire ;», «fire !»); it is closed up here. Spelling, punctuation (the dash in «be,—») and capitals are the print's; apostrophes are written straight.