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Text:My Spirit Longs for Thee
Author:John Byrom
Tune:ST. CECILIA (Hayne)
Composer:Leighton George Hayne
Media:MIDI file

4471. My Spirit Longs for Thee

1. My spirit longs for Thee,
Within my troubled breast,
Though I unworthy be
Of so divine a guest.

2. Of so divine a guest
Unworthy though I be,
Yet has my heart no rest
Unless it come from Thee.

3. Unless it come from Thee,
In vain I look around;
In all that I can see
No rest is to be found.

4. No rest is to be found
But in Thy blessèd love;
O let my wish be crowned
And send it from above.

Text Information
First Line: My spirit longs for Thee
Title: My Spirit Longs for Thee
Author: John Byrom (1773)
Meter: 66.66
Language: English
Source: Miscellaneous Poems, 1773
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ST. CECILIA (Hayne)
Composer: Leighton George Hayne (1863)
Meter: 66.66
Incipit: 54332 13277 65223
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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