| 1 | Release my spirit! This is what I need: |
| | O may my spirit with the saints’ be knit; |
| | No more in private ways Thyself to seek, |
| | But freed from self and for Thy building fit. |
| 2 | Release my spirit! This is what I ask, |
| | That self-confined or closed I may not be; |
| | How deep within myself I long have been, |
| | If Thou deliver not, I’ll ne’er be free. |
| 3 | Release my spirit! ‘Tis for this I pray, |
| | That from myself I fully may come forth; |
| | Thy Spirit then through me may freely flow, |
| | And Thou Thy presence fully may show forth. |
| 4 | Release my spirit! This is what I want, |
| | That I from my seclusion may depart; |
| | My private seeking poverty has brought, |
| | Now save from self, Thy wealth to me impart. |
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| 5 | Release my spirit! This is what I seek, |
| | That prisoned in my self no more I’ll be; |
| | By Satan’s cunning cheated nevermore, |
| | But loosed from self to Thine infinity. |
| 6 | Release my spirit! ‘Tis for this I yearn, |
| | That self may bind my spirit nevermore; |
| | With all the saints I’d mingle in Thy life, |
| | And all Thou art enjoy forevermore. |
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