Thee, Lord, alone do I require,
My single wish, my sole desire
In earth and heaven thou art;
Thy love supplies mine every want,
Come, O thou tree of life, and plant
An Eden in my heart.
Thee, Lord, alone do I require
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “When the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”—[Prov.] xiii. 12. 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 348.
Publishing: Public Domain