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This song is a translation of a poem Madam Jeanne Marie Guyon wrote while she was imprisoned in a dungeon beneath the infamous Bastille Prison. Madam Guyon (1648-1717) was a French Mystic who founded Quietism, a movement the Catholic Church found heretical in her day. Her writings influenced countless leaders of the Protestant Church, such as John Wesley of the Methodist movement, Count Nikolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf of the Moravians, Watchman Nee and Hudson Taylor of China, along with many from the Holiness Movement of the late 1800's. More about Madam Guyon can be found at:
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Lyrics:
Verse 1
A little bird, I am, shut from the fields of air.
Yet in my cage I sit and sing to Him who placed me there.
Well pleased a prisoner to be because, my God, it pleaseth Thee,
Well pleased a prisoner to be because, my God, it pleaseth Thee

Verse 2
Naught have I else to do. I sing the whole day long,
And He who most I love to please doth listen to my song.
He caught and bound my wond'ring wing but still He bends to hear me sing.
He caught and bound my wan'dring wing, but still He bends to hear me sing.

Verse 3
My cage confines me 'round. Abroad I cannot flee,
But though my wing is closely bound, my heart's at liberty.
My prison walls cannot control the flight, the freedom of the soul,
My prison walls cannot control the flight, the freedom of the soul

Verse 4
Ah, it is good to soar beyond these bars, above
To Him whose purpose I adore, whose providence I love.
And in Thy mighty will to find the joy, the freedom of the mind,
And in Thy mighty will to find, the joy, the freedom of the min




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