Release my spirit! This is what I need:

Release my spirit! This is what I need: O may my spirit with the saints' be knit; No more in private ways Thyself to seek, But freed from self and for Thy building fit.

Release my spirit! This is what I ask, That self-confined or closed I may not be; How deep within myself I long have been, If Thou deliver not, I'll ne'er be free.

Release my spirit! ' Tis for this I pray, That from myself I fully may come forth; Thy Spirit then through me may freely flow, And Thou Thy presence fully may show forth.

Release my spirit! This is what I want, That I from my seclusion may depart; My private seeking poverty has brought, Now save from self, Thy wealth to me impart.

Release my spirit! This is what I seek, That prisoned in my self no more I'll be; By Satan's cunning cheated nevermore, But loosed from self to Thine infinity.

Release my spirit! ' Tis for this I yearn, That self may bind my spirit nevermore; With all the saints I'd mingle in Thy life, And all Thou art enjoy forevermore.