I Gave My Life for Thee

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I Gave My Life for Thee (1858)
by Frances Ridley Havergal

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This was the first hymn that Havergal wrote. There is a story that she was inspired by Domenico Fetti's painting Ecce Homo (at the time attributed to a "Sternburg") and used the painting's Latin caption as the hymn's original title: "I did this for thee; what hast thou done for Me?"

1934234I Gave My Life for Thee1858Frances Ridley Havergal

Versions of I Gave My Life for Thee include:

"I Gave My Life for Thee" in The Army and Navy Hymnal, 1920.
"I Gave My Life for Thee", unsourced.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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