Every Bridge Is Burned Behind Me

I share the following refrain from one of the hymns that was a part of Morning Prayer, today:

 

Every Bridge Is Burned Behind Me

 

Strengthen all the ties that bind me

Closer, closer, Lord, to Thee.

Ev'ry bridge is burned behind me;

Thine I evermore will be

 

(Johnson Oatman, Jr., 1856-1922)