Bible Songs — Miscellaneous

Jesus, Lover of My Soul

No. 1225
Tune JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL.
Words Charles Wesley.
Music H. W. Herns
Key G major
Singing key F major
Time 2/2
4 stanzas

Words

Jesus, lover of my soul,Let me to thy bosom fly,While the billows near me roll,While the tempest still is high.Hide me, O my Saviour, hide,'Till the storm of life is past,Safe into the haven guide,O receive my soul at last.

Other refuge have I none,Hangs my helpless soul on thee;Leave, O leave me not alone!Still support and comfort me;All my trust on thee is stayed,All my help from thee I bring;Cover my defenseless headWith the shadow of thy wing.

Thou, O Christ, art all I want,More than all in thee I find:Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,Heal the sick, and lead the blind.Just and holy is thy name,I am all unrighteousness;Vile and full of sin I am,Thou art full of truth and grace.

Plenteous grace with thee is found—Grace to pardon all my sin;Let the healing streams abound,Make and keep me pure within;Thou of life the Fountain art,Freely let me take of thee;Spring thou up within my heart,Rise to all eternity.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1225» (large) at the left, title «JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the three-line epigraph given below; «CHARLES WESLEY.» (the words) at the left and «H. W. HERNS, by per.» (the music, by permission) at the right above system 1, both in capitals and small capitals; «Slow.» over the first bar and «rit.» over bar 30; under the music «Copyrighted 1886, by H. W. Herns.»; folio «443». No meter, no tune name other than the title, no reference line. Stanza 1 stands between the staves (numbered «1.»); stanzas 2–4 are printed below the music in two columns (stanza 3 begins at the foot of the left column and ends at the head of the right one). In stanza 1 the music answers itself in echoes, and the echo words are printed in small bold type — above the stanza line for the alto: «Let me to thy», «While the billows», «'Till the storm of»; below it for tenor and bass: «Let me to thy bosom fly,», «While the billows near me roll,» — these are repetitions of the stanza's own words, kept in `lyrics_syllables.txt` where they stand. Words divided under the notes are joined («Je - sus», «lov - er», «bo - som», «bil - lows», «tem - pest», «Sav - iour», «in - to», «ha - ven», «re - ceive»). Spelling and punctuation are the print's («'Till» with an apostrophe, «Saviour», «defenseless», «Plenteous», «found—»; «hight» and «depth.» in the epigraph). The print's thin spaces before «;», «:» and «!» are closed up; quotation marks and apostrophes are written straight.