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Text:Early, my God, without delay
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:LAUREL HILL
Composer:Unknown

476. Early, my God, without delay

1 Early, my God, without delay,
I haste to seek thy face,
My thirsty spirit faints away
Without thy cheering grace.

2 So pilgrims on the scorching sand,
Beneath a burning sky,
Long for a cooling stream at hand,
And they must drink or die.

3 I've seen thy glory and thy power
Through all thy temple shine:
My God, repeat that heavenly hour,
That vision so divine.

4 Not life itself, with all its joys,
Can my best passions move,
Or raise so high my cheerful voice
As thy forgiving love.

Text Information
First Line: Early, my God, without delay
Author: Isaac Watts
Publication Date: 1886
Topic: The Christian: Hymns for Social Worship
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: LAUREL HILL
Composer: Unknown
Meter: C. M.
Key: C Major
Notes: Now Public Domain. Alternate tunes: #201, 724, or 308.



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