Early, My God, Without Delay
- Words:
- Isaac Watts
- Music:
- William Dixon
Sheet music
- 1Early, my God, without delay,I haste to seek Thy face;My thirsty spirit faints away,My thirsty spirit faints away,Without Thy cheering grace.So pilgrims on the scorching sand,Beneath a burning sky,Long for a cooling stream at hand,Long for a cooling stream at hand;And they must drink or die.
- 2Not life itself, with all her joys,Can my best passions move,Or raise so high my cheerful voice,Or raise so high my cheerful voice,As Thy forgiving love.Thus, till my last expiring day,I’ll bless my God and King;Thus will I lift my hands to pray,Thus will I lift my hands to pray,And tune my lips to sing.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 404 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.