My strength when thou, O Jesus, art,
My soul tho’ halt and lame,
Runs swiftly, as the bounding hart,
Exulting in thy name;
Beyond the reach of sin, above
The world, I then ascend,
Walk in the mount of holiest love,
And talk with God my friend!
My strength when Thou, O Jesus, art
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.”—[Hab.] iii. 19. 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 104.
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