Thou lovely, meek, and gentle Lamb

Verse 1
Thou lovely, meek, and gentle Lamb,
Pattern of pure humility,
Call’d after thy own name I am,
And fain I would resemble Thee,
’Scape from a world of noise and strife,
And fly the glare of public life.

Verse 2
Not brawling, popular, and loud,
But silent as the Man of wo,
Instruct me to decline the croud,
After my speechless Guide to go,
And quietly, like Thee, resign
My soul into the hands Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.’—[Matt. 12,] v. 19.” Wesley originally published verse 2 in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later added the first verse in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. 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 260.
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