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Text:My God, I Love Thee For Thyself
Author:George Bubier
Tune:DUBLIN
Composer:H. Bemrose
Media:MIDI file

8283. My God, I Love Thee For Thyself

1 My God, I love Thee for Thyself,
All creature things above;
Thy glorious works, Thy blessèd gifts
I praise—but Thee I love.

2 My God, I seek Thee for Thyself,
Besides, I ask not aught;
If Thee, Thyself, I do not find,
All that I find is naught.

3 If Thou deniest me Thyself,
Whate’er Thou givest me,
Empty and void, I languish still,
And grieve unceasingly.

4 Give me to find, O gracious God,
Thee, as my final end;
To Thee in constancy of love
Eternally to tend.

Text Information
First Line: My God, I love Thee for Thyself
Title: My God, I Love Thee For Thyself
Author: George Bubier (1857)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: DUBLIN
Composer: H. Bemrose (1889)
Meter: CM
Key: G Major or modal
Source: Methodist Free Church Hymns with Tunes (London: Andrew Crombie, 1889)
Copyright: Public Domain



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