Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: O for the wings of faith to rise
Topic: View of Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 304
Page Number: 329, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO! for the wings of faith to rise
Within the veil, and see
The saints above, how great their joys,
How bright their glories be.
Once they were mourning here below,
And wet their couch with tears;
They wrestled hard, as we do now,
With sins, and doubts, and fears.
I ask them whence their vict'ry came?
They with united breath
Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to this death.
They mark'd the footsteps that he trod,
(His zeal inspir'd their breast,)
They press'd along the heav'nly road,
And gain'd the promis'd rest.