Fain would I in my earliest days
Be mindful of my God,
My God who made me by his grace,
And bought me with his blood:
That young I may observe thy word,
And not in age depart,
Come, O my dear redeeming Lord,
And dwell within my heart.
Fain would I in my earliest days
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth.”—[Eccles.] xii. 1. 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 358.
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