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Text:I love to steal awhile away
Author:Phoebe Hinsdale Brown
Tune:BROWN
Composer:William B. Bradbury

519. I love to steal awhile away

1 I love to steal awhile away
From every cumbering care,
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.

2 I love in solitude to shed
The penitential tear;
And all his promises to plead,
Where none but God can hear.

3 I love to think on mercies past,
And future good implore;
And all my cares and sorrows cast
On him whom I adore.

4 I love by faith to take a view
Of brighter scenes to come;
The prospect doth my strength renew
While here away from home.

Text Information
First Line: I love to steal awhile away
Author: Phoebe Hinsdale Brown
Publication Date: 1886
Topic: The Christian: Meditation and Prayer
Tune Information
Name: BROWN
Composer: William B. Bradbury
Meter: C. M.
Key: C Major
Notes: Alternate tunes: #354, 179, or 201.



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