KEEP ME, JESUS, KEEP ME

by: Waverley Turner Carmichael

      EEP me 'neath Thy mighty wing,
      Keep me, Jesus, keep me;
      Help me praise Thy Holy name,
      Keep me, Jesus, keep me.
      O my Lamb, come, my Lamb,
      O my good Lamb,
      Save me, Jesus, save me.
       
      Hear me as I cry to Thee;
      Keep me, Jesus, keep me;
      May I that bright glory see;
      Keep me, Jesus, keep me.
      O my Lamb, my good Lamb,
      O my good Lamb,
      Keep me, Jesus, keep me.

"Keep Me, Jesus, Keep Me" is reprinted from The Book of American Negro Poetry. Ed. James Weldon Johnson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.

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