The object of his kindest care
He never yet forsook,
But did himself my weakness bear,
And all my burthen took,
He bore me up, from earth he bore
On wings of heavenly love,
And taught my callow soul to soar
To those bright realms above.
The object of His kindest care
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange God with him.”—Deut. xxxii. 11, 12. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 108.
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