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<h2>THEE WILL I LOVE, MY STRENGTH, MY TOWER</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength.” Psalm 18:1</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_e_wesley_j_2.jpg" alt="John Wesley (1703-1791)" width="132.666666666667" height="195.333333333333"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_c_scheffler_j.html" target="_blank">Johann Scheffler</a>, <em>Heilige Seelenlust</em>, 1657 (<em>Ich will dich lieben, meine Stärke</em>); translated from German to English by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_e_wesley_j.html" target="_blank">John Wesley</a>, <em>Hymns and Sacred Poems</em>, 1739.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Admah,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_a_mason_l.html" target="_blank">Lowell Mason</a> (1792-1872) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_a_d_admah.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<span class="cou">Courtesy of Yale Divinity Library</span></td>
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<p>Thee will I love, my Strength, my Tower,<br>
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Thee will I love, my Joy, my Crown,<br>
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Thee will I love with all my power,<br>
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In all Thy works, and Thee alone;<br>
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Thee will I love, till the pure fire<br>
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Fill my whole soul with chaste desire.
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<p>Ah, why did I so late Thee know,<br>
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Thee, lovelier than the sons of men!<br>
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Ah, why did I no sooner go<br>
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To Thee, the only ease in pain!<br>
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Ashamed, I sigh, and inly mourn,<br>
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That I so late to Thee did turn.
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<p>In darkness willingly I strayed,<br>
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I sought Thee, yet from Thee I roved;<br>
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Far wide my wandering thoughts were spread,<br>
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Thy creatures more than Thee I loved;<br>
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And now if more at length I see,<br>
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’Tis through Thy light and comes from Thee.
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<p>I thank Thee, uncreated Sun,<br>
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That Thy bright beams on me have shined;<br>
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I thank Thee, who hast overthrown<br>
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My foes, and healed my wounded mind;<br>
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I thank Thee, whose enlivening voice<br>
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Bids my freed heart in Thee rejoice.
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<p>Uphold me in the doubtful race,<br>
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Nor suffer me again to stray;<br>
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Strengthen my feet with steady pace<br>
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Still to press forward in Thy way;<br>
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My soul and flesh, O Lord of might,<br>
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Fill, satiate, with Thy heavenly light.
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<p>Give to mine eyes refreshing tears,<br>
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Give to my heart chaste, hallowed fires,<br>
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Give to my soul, with filial fears,<br>
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The love that all heaven’s host inspires;<br>
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That all my powers, with all their might,<br>
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In Thy sole glory may unite.
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<p>Thee will I love, my joy, my crown,<br>
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Thee will I love, my Lord, my God;<br>
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Thee will I love, beneath Thy frown,<br>
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Or smile, Thy scepter, or Thy rod;<br>
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What though my flesh and heart decay?<br>
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Thee shall I love in endless day!</p>
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