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I Love to Steal Awhile Away
Verse 1
I love to steal awhile away
From every cumbering care,
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
From every cumbering care,
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
Verse 2
I love in solitude to shed
The penitential tear;
And all His promises to plead,
Where none but God can hear.
The penitential tear;
And all His promises to plead,
Where none but God can hear.
Verse 3
I love to think on mercies past,
And future good implore;
And all my cares and sorrows cast
On Him whom I adore.
And future good implore;
And all my cares and sorrows cast
On Him whom I adore.
Verse 4
I love by faith to take a view
Of brighter scenes to come;
The prospect doth my strength renew
While here away from home.
Of brighter scenes to come;
The prospect doth my strength renew
While here away from home.
An early Methodist hymn expressing the desire for solitude and communion with God.