1. How great the bliss to be a sheep of Jesus!
And to be guided by His Shepherd-staff;
Earth’s greatest honors are, howe’er they please us,
To this compar’d, but vain and empty chaff:
Yea, what this world can never give,
May, thro’ the Shepherd’s grace, each needy sheep receive.

2. Here is a pasture, rich and never failing,
Here living waters in abundance flow;
None can conceive the grace with them prevailing,
Who Jesus’ Shepherd-voice obey and know;
He banisheth all fear and strife,
And leads them gently on to everlasting life.

3. Whoe’er would spend his days in lasting pleasure,
Must come to Christ and join His flock with speed;
Here is a feast prepar’d, rich beyond measure,
The world meanwhile on empty husks must feed:
Those sheep may share in ev’ry good,
Whose Shepherd doth possess the treasuries of God.