Words: , Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740. These words are stanzas 15-18 of a poem of 22 verses, titled “The Resignation.” Music: Boylston, , The Choir, or Union Collection of Church Music, 1832. |
And can I yet delay
My little all to give?
To tear my soul from earth away
For Jesus to receive?
Nay, but I yield, I yield;
I can hold out no more;
I sink, by dying love compelled,
And own Thee Conqueror.
Though late, I all forsake;
My friends, my all, resign;
Gracious Redeemer, take, O take,
And seal me ever Thine!
Come, and possess me whole,
Nor hence again remove;
Settle and fix my wavering soul
With all Thy weight of love.