Verse 1
Left from my birth to Thee my God,
Thro’ life the object of thy care,
Forsaking now this mean abode,
I ask, in agony of prayer,
Peace, when this feeble body dies,
And a smooth passage to the skies.
Verse 2
O re-assure my sprinkled heart,
Thou dost abundantly forgive,
That meet, and joyful to depart,
My friends I in thy hands may leave,
While all my cancel’d sin I see
Nail’d with thy body to the tree.
Verse 3
Open my mouth to speak thy praise,
Thy faithful love which never ends,
To minister thy balmy grace,
To chear my sad, surviving friends
And leave a blessing large behind,
Fruit of my prayers for all mankind.
Verse 4
But chiefly let my dying cries
Avail for those I call’d my own,
Indear’d by nature’s softest ties,
After the flesh no longer known,
To Them, dear Lord, thy love impart,
And write thy name on every heart.
Verse 5
On Them, on me the prayer be seal’d
In peace, and purity, and power,
That conscious of the grace reveal’d,
I may at death’s triumphant hour
Declare the glorious earnest given,
And leave them following me to heaven.