Death & Dying
Preparation for Death, 38
From Preparation for Death, in Several Hymns (1772) · Osborn ed., vol. 7 (1870)
Weary of my own complaints,
Still I sigh for purity:
Jesus, come! my spirit faints,
Faints and dies for want of Thee
Drawn by my expiring groan,
Quickly come, and save Thine own.
Alien from the life of God,
Lest the second death I die,
Me polluted in my blood,
Pass compassionately by:
Faith Divine and pardon give,
Bid me in Thy likeness live.
Only Thee I gasp to know,
Truth of holiness and love,
Truth of happiness below,
Way to glorious joys above;
Life, eternal life Thou art;
Speak Thyself into my heart.
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