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73*. I Was a Wandering Sheep | S.M.D. |
| by H. Bonar |
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| 1 | I was a wandering sheep, | Isaiah 53:6 |
| I did not love the fold; |
| I did not love my Shepherd's voice. |
| I would not be controlled: |
| I was a wayward child, |
| I did not love my home, |
| I did not love my Father's voice, |
| I loved afar to roam. |
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| 2 | The Shepherd sought His sheep, | Luke 15:3-7 |
| The Father sought His child: |
| He followed me o'er vale and hill, |
| O'er desert waste and wild: |
| He found me nigh to death, |
| Famished and faint and lone; |
| He bound me with the chains of love, |
| He saved the wandering one. |
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| 3 | Jesus my Shepherd is: | Psalm 23:1; John 10:11; Hebrews 13:20-21 |
| 'Twas He that loved my soul, |
| 'Twas He that washed me in His blood, |
| 'Twas He that made me whole: |
| 'Twas He that sought the lost, |
| That found the wandering sheep; |
| 'Twas He that brought me to the fold: |
| 'Tis He that still doth keep. |
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| 4 | No more a wandering sheep, | John 10:3-4 |
| I love to be controlled; |
| I love my tender Shepherd's voice, |
| I love the peaceful fold: |
| No more a wayward child, |
| I seek no more to roam; |
| I love my heavenly Father's voice: |
| I love, I love His home. |
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