Am not I the wilder’d sheep?
Seek me, O thou shepherd good,
Find, and for thy service keep
The dear purchase of thy blood;
Lost again if thou depart,
Hide me Saviour, in thy heart.
Am not the wilder’d sheep
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: O seek thy servant.”—[Psalm] cxix. 176. 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 331.
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