Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: My soul how lovely is the place
Topic: The Christian
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 219
Page Number: 243, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsMy soul, how lovely is the place,
To which thy God resorts!
'Tis heav'n to see his smiling face,
Though in his earthly court.
My heart and flesh cry out for thee,
While far from thine abode,
When shall I tread thy courts, and see
My Saviour, and my God.
The sparrow builds herself a nest,
And suffers no remove;
O make me, like the sparrow, blest,
To dwell but where I love.
To sit one day beneath thine eye,
And hear thy gracious voice,
Exceeds a whole eternity,
Employ'd in carnal joys.
Lord, at thy threshold I would wait,
While Jesus is within,
Rather than fill a throne of state,
Or live in tents of sin.
Could I command the spacious land,
And the more boundless sea,
For one blest hour, at thy right hand,
I'd give them both away.