MuseOpoly: The King of Love My Shepherd Is

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Text written in 1868 by H. W. Baker (1821-1877)

Sung to DOMINUS REGIT ME, composed in 1868 by John B. Dykes (1823-1876)

Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I lack.

V. 1 The King of love my Shepherd is,

Whose goodness faileth never;

I nothing lack if I am His,

And He is mine forever.

Psalm 23:2 He lets me lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside quiet waters.

V. 2 Where streams of living water flow

My ransomed soul He leadeth,

And, where the verdant pastures grow,

With food celestial feedeth.

Luke 15:5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders....

V. 3 Perverse and foolish, oft I strayed,

But yet in love He sought me,

And on His shoulder gently laid,

And home, rejoicing, brought me.

Psalm 23:6 Only goodness and faithful love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord as long as I live.

V. 4 And so through all the length of days

Thy goodness faileth never;

Good Shepherd! I would sing Thy praise

Within Thy house forever.

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