Music & HymnsMy Lord, How Full Of Sweet Content

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" Romans 8:35

Words: Madame Guyon, PoTsies et Cantiques Spirituels, 1722; translated from French to English by William Cowper in his posthumous Poems Translated from the French of Madame de la Mothe Guion, 1801. The lyrics may be partly autobio=graphical, reflecting Guyon's periods of imprisonment and banishment.

Music: "Hamburg," Lowell Mason, 1824

Courtesy of Yale Divinity Library

My Lord, how full of sweet content;
I pass my years of banishment!
Where'er I dwell, I dwell with Thee,
In heaven, in earth, or on the sea.

To me remains nor place nor time;
My country is in every clime;
I can be calm and free from care
On any shore, since God is there.

While place we seek, or place we shun
The soul finds happiness in none;
But with a God to guide our way,
'Tis equal joy, to go or stay.

Could I be cast where Thou are not,
That were indeed a dreadful lot:
But regions none remote I call,
Secure of finding God in all.

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