Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1850
Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: The sun above us is gleaming
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: A Crihfield
Composer:
Tune: Sun of Righteousness
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 138, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThe sun a-bove us gleaming
Is not the sun for me;
Though joy-ful be his beam-ing,
And beau-ti-ful to see;
There is a Sun of Righteousness
Who cheers and saves me by his grace.
All co-pious on me stream-ing,
O that's the Sun for me,
O that's the Sun for me,
O that's the Sun for me.
The kings and lords of nations,
Are not the kings for me;
Too low their highest stations,
Too mean their dignity:
The King of kings and Lord of lords,
Almighty in his ways and words,
The word of his salvation,
O that's the King for me.
This house of death and mourning
Is not the house for me,
Where all to dust are turning,
In tears and agony;
But there's a house not made with hands,
It ever stood and ever stands,
Beyond the world's last burning,
O that's the house for me.
The wars the hero fights in
Are not the wars for me,
The war my heart delights in
Shall end in victory;
'T is not a war of flesh and blood-
I fight for heaven, I fight for God,
A kingdom with my rights in,
O that's the war for me.
This land of sin and sorrow
Is not the land for me,
Where anguish oft I borrow
From dying company;
Th' immortal land is far away,
I'll enter it on some bright day,
That day may be to-morrow,
O that's the land for me.