Desires After Holiness
 
1. How happy, how joyful, how loving I feel,
I want to feel more love, yea, more love and zeal,
I want my love perfect, I want my love pure,
That all things with patience I may well endure. 
 
2. I want to be little, more simple, more mild,
More like my blest Master, and more like a child;
More watchful, more pray'rful, more lowly in mind,
More thankful, more gentle, more loving and kind. 
 
3. I want to have wisdom that comes from above,
I want my heart fill'd with the purest of love;
I want my faith stronger, my anchor hope sure,
And like a good soldier, all hardness endure. 
 
4. I want to have freedom from false human pride,
All malice and anger, I would lay aside;
From sin and from bondage I want to be free,
And live, my dear Saviour, live only to Thee. 
 
5. While suff'ring, enduring, in duty believe,
Forgiving, if any my spirit should grieve;
Rememb'ring at all times what Jesus did say,
And set out anew, and begin every day.

6. My treasure in heaven I want to lay up,
Where nothing will enter, to rust or corrupt;
Where no thief or robber, will venture or dare,
My heart and my treasure, I want should be there.

7. The faith of my Jesus, His love and His zeal,
I want them deep rooted, and inwardly feel;
I want my light clear, that beholders may see,
How faith and good works in sweet union agree.

8. My union I want with the Father and Son,
I want that perfected which grace has begun;
With love and sweet union, that sooths every care,
And with my dear brethren all burdens to bear.

9. Come love and sweet union, to thee I do call,
I want to feel more love, yea, more love to all;
O come, my Beloved, come, hasten to me,
And fill up my vessel, as full as can be.

10. Come brethren and sisters, both aged and youth,
And all who are willing to walk in the truth;
Come fill up your vessels, with union and love,
And on our blest journey we'll joyfully move.

11. When time is no longer, from earth we'll remove,
To dwell in the regions of pure light and love;
With Jesus our Saviour, and all holy men,
We'll sing hallelujah forever, Amen.