The past no longer in my power:
The future who shall live to see?
Mine only is the present hour,
Lent, to be all laid out for thee:
Now, Saviour, with thy grace endow’d
Now let me serve and please my God.
The past no longer in my power
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Take no thought for the morrow.”—[Matt.] vi. 34. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 191.
Publishing: Public Domain