My life in premature decay,
My Father, still I strive to say,
“Thy will be done.”
Let but my fainting heart be blest
With Thy sweet Spirit for its Guest;
My God, to Thee I leave the rest—
“Thy will be done.”
For comments on Charlotte Elliott see [Hymn 233].
MUSIC. HANFORD was written for “Jesus, my Saviour, look on me,” another of Miss Elliott’s hymns. The composer, who often stayed in the home of Mrs. Gertrude Clay-Ker-Seymer at Hanford, in Dorsetshire, wrote the tune there, hence its name.
For comments on the composer, Arthur Sullivan, see [Hymn 113].