Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Give me the wings of faith to rise
Topic: Heaven
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: William Tansur
Meter: CM
Tune: St Martin's
Hymn Number: 200
Page Number: 069, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsGIVE me the wings of faith, to rise
Within the vail, and see
The saints above, how great their joys,
How bright their glories be.
Once they were mourning here below,
And poured out cries and tears;
They wrestled hard, as we do now,
With sins, and doubts, and fears.
I ask them whence their victory came;
They, with united breath,
Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to his death.
They marked the footsteps that he trod;
His zeal inspired their breast;
And, following their incarnate God,
Possess the promised rest.