The Cyber Hymnal ‎#12886

12886. I Love My God

1 I love my God, but with no love of mine,
For I have none to give;
I love Thee, Lord, but all the love is Thine,
For by Thy life I live.
I am as nothing, and rejoice to be
Emptied, and lost, and swallowed up in Thee.

2 Thou, Lord, alone, art all Thy children need,
And there is none beside:
From Thee the streams of blessedness proceed;
In Thee the blessed abide.
Fountain of life, and all abounding grace,
Our source, our center, and our dwelling place.

Text Information

• First Line: I love my God, but with no love of mine
• Title: I Love My God
• Author: Madame Guyon, 1648-1717
• Translator: William Cowper
• Meter: 10.6.10.6.10.10
• Language: English
• Source: Tr.: Poems of Madame de la Mothe Guoin
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tune: LANETON from "The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book" (New York: Mason Brothers, 1859)

Tune Information

• Name: NADDERWATER
• Composer: Walter Bond Giblert (1883)
• Meter: 10.6.10.6.10.10
• Key: E Major
• Source: Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church by Walter Gilbert and Alfred B. Goodrich (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1883)
• Copyright: Public Domain