1 Here do I come to thy shelter today,
Weary and burdened and her will I pray;
Let me accept the sweet comfort I may,
O Rock that is higher than I.
Refrain:
Saviour, Saviour,
Unto thy shelter I fly,
Thou art my Rock, my sheltering Rock;
Rock that is higher, higher than I.
2 Help me to find fainting pilgrims for thee,
Leading them also thy comfort to see,
Finding the peace thou hast granted to me,
O Rock that is higher than I. [Refrain]
3 Blessing hast thou on the pilgrimage road,
Cheering the way to a brighter abode,
Where there is joy everlasting bestowed,
O Rock that is higher than I. [Refrain]
Source: The Old Story in Song Number Two #45
Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersey, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
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