Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: 'Tis pure delight without alloy (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book

Date: 1815

Compiler: John Thompson et al

Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace

First Line: 'Tis pure delight without alloy

Topic: Rejoicing in God

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 101

Page Number: 086, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Tis pure delight, without alloy,

Jesus, to hear thy name;

My spirit leaps with inward joy,

I feel the sacred flame.



My passions hold a pleasing reign,

While love inspires my breast;

Love, the divinest of the train,

And sov'reign of the rest.



This is the grace must live and sing,

When faith and hope shall cease,

Must sound from ev'ry joyful string,

Thro' the sweet groves of bliss.



Let life immortal seize my clay,

Let love refine my blood;

Her flames can bear my soul away,

Can bring me near my God.



Swift I ascend the heavenly place,

And hasten to my home;

I leap to meet thy kind embrace,

I come, my Lord, I come.



Sink down, ye separating hills,

Let guilt and death remove,

'Tis love that drives my chariot wheels,

And death must yield to love.