Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Now let our souls on wings sublime
Topic: Christian/Consecration
Writer: Thomas Gibbons
Composer: W Monk
Meter: LM
Tune: Hursley
Hymn Number: 171
Page Number: 059, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNOW let our souls, on wings sublime,
Rise from the vanities of time;
Draw back the parting vail, and see
The glories of eternity.
Born by a new, celestial birth,
Why should we grovel here on earth?
Why grasp at vain and fleeting toys,
So near to heaven's eternal joys?
Shall aught beguile us on the road,
While we are walking back to God?
For strangers into life we come,
And dying is but going home.