Since first thy word awaked my heart,

Like light new dawning o’er me,

Where’er I turn my eyes, thou art

All light and love before me.

2 Naught else I feel, or hear, or see,

All bonds of earth I sever;

Thee, O my Lord, and only thee,

I live for, now, and ever.

3 Like him whose fetters dropped away

When light shone o’er his prison,

My soul now touched by mercy’s ray,

Hath from its chains arisen.

4 And shall the soul thou bidd’st be free,

Return to bondage? Never;

Thee, O my God, and only thee,

I live for, now, and ever.