{"slug": "jesus-i-my-cross-have-taken", "title": "Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken", "first_line": "Jesus, I my cross have taken", "author": "henry-f-lyte", "author_date": "1824", "foot": "trochaic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 7, 8, 7], "doubled": true, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Discipleship", "Consecration", "Cross"], "scripture": "Mark 10:28", "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847), \"Jesus, I my cross have taken,\" in Sacred Poetry (Edinburgh: Oliphant & Sons, third edition, 1824), revised in Lyte's Poems Chiefly Religious (1833). Text from The Cyber Hymnal (all six stanzas; Hymnary.org text authority jesus_i_my_cross_have_taken_all_to_le, 1,376 hymnals). Sung elisions normalized for the 8.7.8.7 D meter: \"Heaven\" is elided to \"Heav'n\" in 5.8 and \"Heaven's\" to \"Heav'n's\" in 6.3 (as the source itself prints in 1.8), and \"prayer\" is one syllable in 6.2/6.8. All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Je -- sus, I my cross have tak -- en, All to leave and fol -- low Thee. Des -- ti -- tute, de -- spised, for -- sak -- en, Thou from hence my all shalt be. Per -- ish, ev -- ery fond am -- bi -- tion, All I've sought, and hoped, and known. Yet how rich is my con -- di -- tion\u2014 God and Heav'n are still mine own!", "prose": ["Jesus, I my cross have taken,", "All to leave and follow Thee.", "Destitute, despised, forsaken,", "Thou from hence my all shalt be.", "Perish, every fond ambition,", "All I've sought, and hoped, and known.", "Yet how rich is my condition\u2014", "God and Heav'n are still mine own!"]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Let the world de -- spise and leave me, They have left my Sav -- ior, too. Hu -- man hearts and looks de -- ceive me; Thou art not, like them, un -- true; And while Thou shalt smile up -- on me, God of wis -- dom, love and might, Foes may hate and friends dis -- own me: Show Thy face, and all is bright.", "prose": ["Let the world despise and leave me,", "They have left my Savior, too.", "Human hearts and looks deceive me;", "Thou art not, like them, untrue;", "And while Thou shalt smile upon me,", "God of wisdom, love and might,", "Foes may hate and friends disown me:", "Show Thy face, and all is bright."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Go then, earth -- ly fame and trea -- sure! Come, dis -- as -- ter, scorn and pain! In Thy ser -- vice, pain is plea -- sure; With Thy fa -- vor, loss is gain. I have called Thee Ab -- ba, Fa -- ther; I have set my heart on Thee: Storms may howl, and clouds may gath -- er, All must work for good to me.", "prose": ["Go then, earthly fame and treasure!", "Come, disaster, scorn and pain!", "In Thy service, pain is pleasure;", "With Thy favor, loss is gain.", "I have called Thee Abba, Father;", "I have set my heart on Thee:", "Storms may howl, and clouds may gather,", "All must work for good to me."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Man may trou -- ble and dis -- tress me, 'Twill but drive me to Thy breast. Life with tri -- als hard may press me; Heav'n will bring me sweet -- er rest. Oh, 'tis not in grief to harm me While Thy love is left to me! Oh, 'twere not in joy to charm me, Were that joy un -- mixed with Thee.", "prose": ["Man may trouble and distress me,", "'Twill but drive me to Thy breast.", "Life with trials hard may press me;", "Heav'n will bring me sweeter rest.", "Oh, 'tis not in grief to harm me", "While Thy love is left to me!", "Oh, 'twere not in joy to charm me,", "Were that joy unmixed with Thee."]}, "5": {"syllabified": "Take, my soul, thy full sal -- va -- tion; Rise o'er sin, and fear, and care; Joy to find in ev -- ery sta -- tion Some -- thing still to do or bear! Think what Spir -- it dwells with -- in thee; What a Fa -- ther's smile is thine; What a Sav -- ior died to win thee\u2014 Child of Heav'n, shouldst thou re -- pine?", "prose": ["Take, my soul, thy full salvation;", "Rise o'er sin, and fear, and care;", "Joy to find in every station", "Something still to do or bear!", "Think what Spirit dwells within thee;", "What a Father's smile is thine;", "What a Savior died to win thee\u2014", "Child of Heav'n, shouldst thou repine?"]}, "6": {"syllabified": "Haste then on from grace to glo -- ry, Armed by faith, and winged by prayer, Heav'n's e -- ter -- nal day's be -- fore thee, God's own hand shall guide thee there. Soon shall close thy earth -- ly mis -- sion; Swift shall pass thy pil -- grim days; Hope soon change to glad fru -- i -- tion, Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.", "prose": ["Haste then on from grace to glory,", "Armed by faith, and winged by prayer,", "Heav'n's eternal day's before thee,", "God's own hand shall guide thee there.", "Soon shall close thy earthly mission;", "Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days;", "Hope soon change to glad fruition,", "Faith to sight, and prayer to praise."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}