We Give Thee but Thine Own William Walsham How (1823-1897)

SCHUMANN (S.M.) Mason and Webb's Cantica Laudis 1850

We give Thee but Thine own,
   What-e'er the gift may be;
All that we have is Thine a-lone,
   A trust, O Lord, from Thee.

May we Thy boun-ties thus
   As stew-ards true re-ceive,
And glad-ly, as Thou bles-sest us,
   To Thee our first-fruits give.

Our hearts are bruised and dead,
   And homes are bare and cold,
And lambs for whom the Shep-herd bled
   Are stray-ing from the fold.

To com-fort and to bless,
   To find a balm for woe,
To tend the lone and fa-ther-less
   Is an-gels' work be-low.

The cap-tive to re-lease,
   To God the lost to bring,
To teach the way of life and peace--
   It is a Christ-like thing.

And we be-lieve Thy Word,
   Though dim our faith may be;
What-e'er for Thine we do, O Lord,
   We do it un-to Thee.