Author Unknown

L.M.

MY dear Redeemer, and my Lord!

I read my duty in Thy Word:

But in Thy life the law appears

Drawn out in living characters.

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Such was Thy truth, and such Thy zeal,

Such deference to Thy Father’s will,

Thy love and meekness so divine,

I would transcribe and make them mine.

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Cold mountains and the midnights air,

Witnessed the fervor of Thy prayer:

The desert Thy temptations knew,

Thy conflict and Thy victory too!

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Be Thou my pattern; let me bear

More of Thy gracious image here,

Then God, the Judge, shall own my name

Among the followers of the Lamb.