Help me, Lord, to feed and keep
First the lambs, and then the sheep,
Lambs to make my tenderest care,
Lambs within my arms to bear:
Both my happy charge I make,
Both I cherish for thy sake,
Thus in life, and death to prove,
Lov’d of thee, that thee I love.
Help me, Lord, to feed and keep
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Feed my lambs: feed my sheep.”—[John] xxi. 15, 16. 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 126.
Publishing: Public Domain