O Lord! I long Thy face to see,

My thoughts for ever dwell with Thee:

Come, draw my heart, constrain my will,

And send me help from Sion’s hill.

Oh! who shall now my freedom win,

And save me from this yoke of sin?

My God, for Thee my soul doth thirst,

For Thou alone my bonds canst burst.

To keep Thy laws my will is bent,

But fails in the accomplishment:

E’en when I follow good, I find

Some stain of evil lurks behind.

Lord, on Thy child compassion take,

Blot out my sins for Jesu’s sake;

That thus my spirit more and more

With free ascent to heaven may soar.

The foolish worldly mind expel,

Sole Lord within my mansion dwell;

The shield of faith, my God, bestow,

And break sin’s poisoned shaft in two.

Let every thought and feeling be

Henceforth directed, Lord, to Thee:

Let heart and mind, by Thee possest,

Now seek in Thee alone their rest.

Unknown to me while here I stay,

Earth’s vain delights, away! away!

For now the joys of heaven above

Alone have power my heart to move.

Then bid, Thou Good Supreme, depart

Whate’er from Thee withdraws my heart;

In Thee, my God, and only Thee

Henceforth my every joy shall be.