By faith I set me on the tower,
And watch the answer of my prayer:
Hasten, O Lord, the joyful hour,
And all thy name in me declare;
O tell me now that love thou art,
Speak to my troubled conscience peace,
Speak power into my feeble heart,
And life, and perfect holiness.
By faith I set me on the tower
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me.”—[Hab.] ii. 1. 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 102.
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