Thou canst not, Lord, a beggar spurn
That courts thy company,
Wherefore I never will return
From following after thee;
Resolv’d, where’er thou goest, I go,
In all thy footsteps tread,
And glad like thee to want below
A place to lay my head.
Thou canst not, Lord, a beggar spurn
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest I will go; and where thou lodgest I will lodge.”—[Ruth] i. 16. 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 143.
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