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The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed; While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?
He leads me to the tender grasse, Where I both feed and rest; Then to the streams that gently passe: In both I have the best.
Or if I stray, he doth convert, And bring my minde in frame; And all this not for my desert, But for his Holy name.
Yea, in deaths shady black abode Well may I walk, not fear: For thou art with me, and thy rod To guide, thy staff to bear.
Nay, thou dost make me sit and dine, Ev'n in my enemies sight; My head with oyl, my cup with wine Runnes over day and night.
Surely thy sweet and wondrous love Shall measure all my dayes; And as it never shall remove, So neither shall my praise |