LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 7 8 7 D
| | Writer(s): | Ray. Palmer
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| | Dates: | 1864
| | Bible Refs: | Ps 119:176; Jer 3:4
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
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| 464
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 622
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 410
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MUSIC
 Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 464
| D
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. Take me, O my Father, take me;
Take me, save me, through Thy Son;
That which Thou wouldst have me,
make me,
Let Thy will in me be done.
Long from Thee my footsteps straying,
Thorny proved the way I trod;
Weary come I now, and praying,
Take me to Thy love, my God.
2. Fruitless years with grief recalling,
Humbly I confess my sin;
At Thy feet, O Father, falling,
To Thy household take me in.
Freely now to Thee I proffer
This relenting heart of mine;
Freely life and love I offer,
Gift unworthy love like Thine.
3. Once the world’s Redeemer, dying,
Bore our sins upon the tree;
On that sacrifice relying,
Now I look in hope to Thee:
Father, take me; all forgiving,
Fold me to Thy loving breast;
In Thy love forever living
I must be forever blest.
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