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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Horatius Bonar 1808–89

Lost but Found

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I WAS a wandering sheep,

I did not love the fold;

I did not love my Shepherd’s voice,

I would not be controll’d.

I was a wayward child,

I did not love my home,

I did not love my Father’s voice,

I lov’d afar to roam.

The Shepherd sought his sheep;

The Father sought his child;

They follow’d me o’er vale and hill,

O’er deserts waste and wild.

They found me nigh to death,

Famish’d, and faint, and lone;

They bound me with the bands of love;

They sav’d the wandering one.

They spoke in tender love,

They rais’d my drooping head;

They gently clos’d my bleeding wounds,

My fainting soul they fed.

They wash’d my filth away,

They made me clean and fair;

They brought me to my home in peace,

The long-sought wanderer.

Jesus my Shepherd is,

’T was he that lov’d my soul;

’T was he that wash’d me in his blood,

’T was he that made me whole;

’T was he that sought the lost,

That found the wandering sheep;

’T was he that brought me to the fold,

’T is he that still doth keep.

I was a wandering sheep,

I would not be controll’d;

But now I love my Shepherd’s voice,

I love, I love the fold.

I was a wayward child,

I once preferr’d to roam;

But now I love my Father’s voice,

I love, I love his home.