Shepherd, Show Me How to Go

Shepherd

show me how to go

O’er the hill­side steep

How to ga­ther

how to sow

How to feed Thy sheep.

I will list­en for Thy voice

Lest my foot­steps stray;

I will fol­low and re­joice

All the rug­ged way.

Thou wilt bind the stub­born will

Wound the cal­lous breast

Make self right­eous­ness be still

Break earth’s stu­pid rest.

Strangers on a bar­ren shore

Laboring long and lone

We would en­ter by the door

And Thou know­est Thine own.

So

when day grows dark and cold

Tear or tri­umph harms

Lead Thy lamb­kins to the fold

Take them in Thine arms.

Feed the hun­gry

heal the heart

Till the morn­ing’s beam;

White as wool

ere they de­part

Shepherd

wash them clean.