Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: Sweet glories rush upon my sight
Topic: View of Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 295
Page Number: 318, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSweet glories rush upon my sight,
And charm my wond'ring eyes,
The regions of immortal light,
The beauties of the skies.
All hail ye fair celestial shores!
Ye lands of endless day!
Swift on my view your prospect pours,
And drives my griefs away.
There's a delightful clearness now,
My clouds of doubt are gone,
Fled is my former darkness too,
My fears are all withdrawn.
Short is the passage, short the space
Between my home and me;
There, there behold the radian place,
How near the mansions be.
Immortal wonders, boundless things,
In those bright worlds appear:
Prepare me, Lord, to stretch my wings,
And in those glories share.
By faith I feel my spirits rise,
My heart begins t' ascend;
I'll stretch and soar above the skies,
Where raptures never end.