Consecration
Take My Life And Let It Be
- Words:
- Frances R. Havergal, 1874. Music: 'Mozart' Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
- Setting:
- composite found in "Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church", 1920.
- Metre:
- 7 7 7 7
- 1Take my life, and let it beconsecrated, Lord, to Thee.Take my moments and my days;let them flow in ceaseless praise.
- 2Take my hands, and let them moveat the impulse of Thy love.Take my feet, and let them beswift and beautiful for Thee.
- 3Take my voice, and let me singalways, only, for my King.Take my lips, and let them befilled with messages from Thee.
- 4Take my silver and my gold;not a mite would I withhold.Take my intellect, and useevery pow'r as Thou shalt choose.
- 5Take my will, and make it Thine;it shall be no longer mine.Take my heart, it is Thine own;it shall be Thy royal throne.
- 6Take my love, my Lord, I pour at Thy feet its treasure store.Take myself, and I will be ever, only, all for Thee.
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- Written in 1874, the words are in 1,398 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Mozart, is in 22 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is 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.