Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: How pleasant how divinely fair
Topic: The Christian
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 221
Page Number: 245, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow pleasant, how divinely fair,
O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are!
With long desire my spirit faints,
To meet th' assemblies of thy saints.
My flesh would rest in thine abode,
My panting heart cries out for God:
My God! My King! Why should I be
So far from all my joys and thee?
The sparrow chooses where to rest,
And for her young provides her nest;
But will my God to sparrows grant
That pleasure, which his children want?
Blest are the saints, who sit on high
Around thy throne above the sky;
Thy brightest glories shine above,
And all their work is praise and love.
Blest are the souls, who find a place
Within the temple of thy grace;
There to behold thy gentler rays,
And seek thy face, and learn thy praise.
Blest are the men whose hearts are set
To find the way of Zion's gate;
God is their strength; and through the road
They lean upon their helper God.
Cheerful they walk with growing strength,
'Till all shall meet in heav'n at length;
'Till as before thy face appear,
And join in nobler worship there.