Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: O Lord how great is the delight
Topic: Rejoicing
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 131
Page Number: 142, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO Lord, how great is the delight,
To see thy lovely face!
To dwell whole ages in thy sight,
And feel thy vital rays!
This Gabriel knows, and sings thy name,
With rapture on his tongue;
Moses the saint enjoys the same,
While heaven repeats the song.
While the bright nations sound thy praise
From each eternal hill,
Sweet odors of exhaling grace,
The happy regions fill.
Thy love, a sea without a shore,
Spreads life and joy abroad;
O 'tis a heaven worth dying for,
To see a smiling God.
Show me thy face, and I'll away,
From all inferior things;
Speak, Lord, and here I quit my clay,
And stretch my airy wings.