Draw Thou My Soul, O Christ

Words:
Lucy Larcom
Music:
William H. Doane

Sheet music

  1. 1Draw Thou my soul, O Christ, closer to Thine;Breathe into ev’ry wish Thy will divine;Raised my low self above,Won by Thy deathless love,O Christ, thru mine let Thy life shine.Lead forth my soul, O Christ, one with Thine own,Joyful to follow Thee thru paths unknown;In Thee my strength renew;Give me Thy work to do;Thy truth be shown, Thy love made known.
  2. 2Not for myself alone may my prayer be;Lift Thou Thy world, O Christ, closer to Thee;Cleanse it from guilt and wrong;Teach it salvation’s song,Till earth fulfills God’s holy will.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1892, the words are in 88 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.

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