O God, my God, my all Thou art;

1.

O God, my God, my all Thou art;

Ere shines the dawn of rising day;

Thy sovereign light within my heart

Thy all-enlivening pow’r display

2.

For Thee my thirsty soul doth pant

While in this desert land I live

And hungry as I am and faint

Thy love alone can comfort give

3.

In a dry land, behold, I place

My whole desire on Thee, O Lord

And more I joy to gain Thy grace

Than all earth’s treasures can afford

4.

More dear than life itself, Thy love

My heart and tongue shall still employ;

And to declare Thy praise will prove

My peace, my glory and my joy

5.

In blessing Thee, with grateful songs

My happy life shall glide away;

The praise that to Thy name belongs

Hourly with lifted hands I’ll pay

6.

Thy name, O God, upon my bed

Dwells on my lips and fires my thought

With trembling awe, in midnight shade

I muse on all Thy hand have wrought

7.

In all I do I feel Thine aid

Therefore Thy greatness will I sing

O God, who bidd’st my heart be glad

Beneath the shadow of Thy wing

8.

My soul draws nigh and cleaves to Thee

Then let or earth or hell assail

Thy mighty hand shall set me free

For whom Thou sav’st, he ne’er shall fail