1 I will not let Thee go, Thou Guest divine,
Until Thy name I know, by word or sign;
Art Thou the Man who died, between thieves crucified?
Until Thy name I know,bI will not let Thee go.
2 What though the day should break, the shadows flee,
Thy leave Thou shalt not take, I’ll cleave to Thee;
Thy touch my powers may numb, till, halting, I succumb,
But till Thy name I know, I will not let Thee go.
3 What marks are these I see, upon Thy brow?
O Man of Calvary, I read Thee now;
I read Thy lineage well: make Jacob, Israel!
My suit till Thou bestow, I will not let Thee go.
4 The cross Thou didst endure. the cup, the shame;
Ah, yes, I’m doubly sure Thou art the same:
The Rock, once riven for me, the Rod, that smote death’s sea,
Thy blessing floods me so, O, Lord! I let Thee go!
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16101
Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy.
Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book,… Go to person page >
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