Jesu, Lover of my soul

Tune HollingsideMetre Sevens (eight lines)Key Eb majorTune by Rev. J. B. Dykes

¶Choose your part under Play voice to hear it alone, or let all four sound and sing yours. Concert key moves the whole hymn up or down to suit your voice.

Opening the music…

The Words

1Jesu, Lover of my soul,

Let me to Thy Bosom fly,

While the gathering waters roll,

While the tempest still is high:

Hide me, O my Saviour, hide,

Till the storm of life be past;

Safe into the haven guide,

O receive my soul at last.

2Other refuge have I none;

Hangs my helpless soul on Thee:

Leave, ah! leave me not alone,

Still support and comfort me.

All my trust on Thee is stayed;

All my help from Thee I bring;

Cover my defenceless head

With the shadow of Thy wing.

3Plenteous grace with Thee is found,

Grace to cleanse from every sin;

Let the healing streams abound,

Make and keep me pure within:

Thou of Life the Fountain art,

Freely let me take of Thee;

Spring Thou up within my heart,

Rise to all eternity.

The Page It Came From

Hymn 179 as printed in Hymns Ancient and Modern (Novello, London, 1861) — Hymn 179, as printed in Hymns Ancient and Modern (Novello, London, 1861).

Where It Comes From

Read note by note from Hymns Ancient and Modern (Novello, London, 1861), and checked against the printed page. See that page in the scan of the book at the Internet Archive: open the page page 2.

First published in London in 1861. Every tune, harmony and text in it was printed by 1861, so all its writers died long before 1966, and the book is out of copyright in India and the USA.

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