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My life declines, my strength is gone
Author: Susanna Harrison Appears in 7 hymnals
My life declines, my strength is gone
THE WAITS' SONG
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 17 hymnals Tune Sources: English Traditional Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 23212 34321 75 Used With Text: My Life Declines, My Strength Is Gone
THE WAITS' SONG
My Life Declines, My Strength Is Gone
Author: Susannah Harrison Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8689 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Lyrics: 1 My life declines, my strength is gone,
Disease and pains prevail;
Death threatens to arrest me soon,
My heart and flesh doth fail.
2 Soon must I leave this body here,
Soon must my soul away;
O awful thought—my soul, prepare
For that tremendous day!
3 Soon must I pass the solemn test,
How soon, my judge can tell!
When He with smiles shall call me blest,
Or frown me down to hell.
4 O how shall I prepare my heart
Eternal life to gain?
Jesus, Thy grace, Thy strength impart,
Or all I do is vain.
5 I cannot for one sin atone—
I swell with pride no more:
All the best duties I have done
I’ve reason to deplore.
6 Jesus, on Thee alone I lean,
Do Thou my soul prepare;
O cleanse my heart from every sin,
And fix Thy dwelling there.
7 Renewed and justified by grace,
Complete I then shall stand,
Before th’almighty Father’s face,
When He my life demand. Languages: English Tune Title: THE WAITS' SONG
My Life Declines, My Strength Is Gone
My life declines, my strength is gone
Author: Susanna Harrison Hymnal: A New Selection of Hymns #XCI (1813) Languages: English
My life declines, my strength is gone
My life declines, my strength is gone
Hymnal: Songs in the Night (2nd ed.) #86 (1802)
My life declines, my strength is gone
Susannah Harrison
1752 - 1784 Author of "My Life Declines, My Strength Is Gone" in The Cyber Hymnal Harrison, Susanna, invalided from her work as a domestic servant at the age of 20, published Songs in the Night, 1780. This included 133 hymns, and passed through ten editions. She is known by "Begone, my worldly cares, away," and "O happy souls that love the Lord." Born in 1752 and died Aug. 3, 1784.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Harrison, Susanna. (1752--August 3, 1784, Ipswich, England). The preface to the first edition of her collected hymns, Songs in the night, 1780, states that she was "a very obscure young woman, and quite destitute of the advantages of education, as well as under great bodily affliction. Her father dying when she was young, and leaving a large family unprovided for, she went out to service at sixteen years of age."
In August 1722, she became ill, probably with tuberculosis, and returned to her mother's home. She taught herself to write and in her remaining years she wrote 142 hymns which, with a few meditations, were published as Songs in the night by an anonymous editor, perhaps her rector. So sincere yet vivid is the expression of her faith as she faced certain death that by 1847 there had been eleven editions printed in England and seven additional ones in America.
Individual hymns remained popular in America during much of the nineteenth century due to the constant preoccupation with death in both urban and frontier life, reflected in the large sections of funeral hymns in most hymnals.
--Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives
Susannah Harrison
