Thee will I Love – clearance

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Words: by Johann Scheffler

Thee will I love, my strength, my tow’r; Thee will I love, my joy, my crown; Thee will I love with all my pow’r, In all Thy works, and Thee alone. Thee will I love, till Thy pure fire Fill my whole soul with chaste desire.

In darkness willingly I strayed; I sought Thee, yet from Thee I roved, For wide my wand’ring thoughts were spread; Thy creatures more than Thee I loved; And now, if And now, if more at length I see Thy light, and comes from Thee.

Uphold me in the doubtful race, Nor suffer me again to stray; Strengthen my feet, with steady pace Still to press for-ward in Thy way; My soul and flesh, O Lord of Might, Fill, satisfy with heaven’s light.

Thee will I love, my joy, my crown! Thee will I love, my Lord, my God! Thee will I love beneath Thy frown or smile, Thy scepter or Thy rod. What though my flesh and heart decay? Thee shall I love in endless day!