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Text:"A will resigned"
Author:John G. Whittier
Tune:FLEMMING
Arranger:fr. Flemming

293. "A will resigned"

1 I ask not now for gold to gild,
With mocking shine, an aching frame;
The yearning of the mind is stilled--
I ask not now for fame.

2 But, bowed in lowliness of mind,
I make my humble wishes known;
I only ask a will resigned,
O Father, to thine own.

3 In vain I task my aching brain,
In vain the sage's thoughts I scan;
I only feel how weak I am,
How poor and blind is man.

4 And now my spirit sighs for home,
And longs for light whereby to see;
And, like a weary child, would come,
O Father, unto thee.

Text Information
First Line: I ask not now for gold to gild
Title: "A will resigned"
Author: John G. Whittier
Language: English
Publication Date: 1888
Scripture:
Topic: Atonement: Accepted
Tune Information
Name: FLEMMING
Arranger: fr. Flemming
Meter: 8s, 6s
Key: A♭ Major



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