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| COME, 1 O Thou Traveller unknown, | |
| Whom still I hold, but cannot see, | |
| My company before is gone, | |
| And I am left alone with Thee; | |
| With Thee all night I mean to stay, | 5 |
| And wrestle till the break of day. | |
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| I need not tell Thee who I am, | |
| My misery or sin declare; | |
| Thyself hast call’d me by my name; | |
| Look on Thy hands and read it there! | 10 |
| But who, I ask Thee, who art Thou? | |
| Tell me Thy name, and tell me now. | |
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| In vain Thou strugglest to get free, | |
| I never will unloose my hold; | |
| Art Thou the Man that died for me? | 15 |
| The secret of Thy love unfold. | |
| Wrestling, I will not let Thee go, | |
| Till I Thy Name, Thy Nature know. | |
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| Wilt Thou not yet to me reveal | |
| Thy new, unutterable Name? | 20 |
| Tell me, I still beseech Thee, tell: | |
| To know it now resolved I am: | |
| Wrestling, I will not let Thee go, | |
| Till I Thy Name, Thy Nature know. | |
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| What though my shrinking flesh complain, | 25 |
| And murmur to contend so long? | |
| I rise superior to my pain; | |
| When I am weak, then I am strong: | |
| And when my all of strength shall fail, | |
| I shall with the God-Man prevail. | 30 |
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| My strength is gone; my nature dies; | |
| I sink beneath Thy weighty hand; | |
| Faint to revive, and fall to rise; | |
| I fall, and yet by faith I stand: | |
| I stand, and will not let Thee go, | 35 |
| Till I Thy Name, Thy Nature know. | |
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| Yield to me now, for I am weak, | |
| But confident in self-despair; | |
| Speak to my heart, in blessings speak, | |
| Be conquer’d by my instant prayer! | 40 |
| Speak, or Thou never hence shalt move, | |
| And tell me, if Thy Name is Love? | |
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| ’Tis Love! ’tis Love! Thou died’st for me | |
| I hear Thy whisper in my heart! | |
| The morning breaks, the shadows flee; | 45 |
| Pure universal Love Thou art! | |
| To me, to all, Thy bowels move; | |
| Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love! | |
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| My prayer hath power with God; the grace | |
| Unspeakable I now receive; | 50 |
| Through faith I see Thee face to face, | |
| I see Thee face to face, and live: | |
| In vain I have not wept and strove; | |
| Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love. | |
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| I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art; | 55 |
| Jesus, the feeble sinner’s Friend! | |
| Nor wilt Thou with the night depart, | |
| But stay, and love me to the end! | |
| Thy mercies never shall remove— | |
| Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love! | 60 |
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| The Sun of Righteousness on me | |
| Hath rose, with healing in His wings; | |
| Wither’d my nature’s strength, from Thee | |
| My soul its life and succour brings; | |
| My help is all laid up above; | 65 |
| Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love. | |
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| Contented now upon my thigh | |
| I halt, till life’s short journey end; | |
| All helplessness, all weakness, I | |
| On thee alone for strength depend; | 70 |
| Nor have I power from thee to move; | |
| Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love. | |
