# I've found a Friend

- Music: A. Sullivan (died 1900)
- Words: James Grindlay Small
- Licence of the score: Public Domain
- Credit: Typeset by Ian Matthews for the Mutopia Project (Public Domain)
- Source: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=1203

## The words

I've found a Friend; O such a Friend!  
He loved me ere I knew Him; He drew me with the  
cords of love, And thus He bound me to Him:  
And round my heart still closely twine Those  
ties which nought can sever; For I am His,  
and He is mine, For ever and for ever.  

I've found a Friend; O such a Friend!  
He bled, He died to save me; And not alone the  
gift of life, But His own self He gave me.  
Nought that I have mine own I'll call,  
I'll hold it for the Giver; My heart,  
my strength, my life, my all Are His,  
and His for ever.  

I've found a Friend; O such a Friend!  
All power to Him is given, To guard me on my  
onward course And bring me safe to heaven.  
The eternal glories gleam afar,  
To nerve my faint endeavor; So now to watch,  
to work, to war, And then to rest for ever.  

I've found a Friend; O such a Friend!  
So kind, and true, and tender! So wise a  
Counsellor and Guide, So mighty a Defender!  
From Him who loves now me so well What power my  
soul can sever? Shall life or death?  
Shall earth or hell? No! I am His for ever.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).