Thou Shepherd of Israel, and mine

Verse 1
Thou shepherd of Israel, and mine,
The joy and desire of my heart,
For closer communion I pine,
I long to reside where thou art;
The pasture I languish to find
Where all who their shepherd obey,
Are fed, on thy bosom reclin’d,
Are skreen’d from the heat of the day.

Verse 2
Ah, shew me that happiest place,
That place of thy people’s abode,
Where saints in an extasy gaze,
And hang on a crucified God:
Thy love for a sinner declare,
Thy passion and death on the tree,
My spirit to Calvary bear,
To suffer, and triumph, with thee.

Verse 3
’Tis there with the lambs of thy flock,
There only I covet to rest,
To lie at the foot of the Rock,
Or rise to be hid in thy breast;
’Tis there I would always abide,
And never a moment depart,
Conceal’d in the clift of thy side,
Eternally held in thy heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon.”—[Song of Sol.] i. 7. 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 362.
Publishing: Public Domain