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Love Longings

Tune: Hendon

(one tune to \'Take my life, and let it be\')

Based on a prayer by Thomas á Kempis, 15th Century AD

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Lord, deepen your love in me

That my inmost heart may see

How sweet it is to love free

Wholly devoted to be

 

Let me in your love dissolve

Each deed, word, from you evolve

Plunge me in that fount sublime

Possess my life for all time

 

May I know fervour, wonder

Holy desires my soul stir

Let me sing the song of love

Aid me Spirt, holy dove

 

Let me follow you each day

Going higher in your way

Inspire me, myself to spend

In your praises, life no end

 

Let me love you more than me

More than myself, who I see

Daily, but for you deny

You my heart see, test me, try

 

Let me love myself only

For your own sake, let it be

Not in selfishness nor greed

That I not self\'s vain pleas heed

 

And too love those who love you

Love for God and neighbour too

As you law of love commands

Which was written by your hands