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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Since o'er thy footstool here below (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Since o'er thy footstool here below

Topic: God/In Creation

Writer: <no first name given> Muhlenberg

Composer:

Meter: CHM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 55

Page Number: 036, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Since o'er thy footstool here below

Such radiant gems are strewn,

O, what magnificence must glow,

Great God, about thy throne!

So brilliant here these drops of light -- 

There the full ocean rolls, how bright!



If night's blue curtain of the sky --

With thousand stars inwrought,

Hung like a royal canopy

With glittering diamonds fraught --

Be, Lord, thy temple's outer vail.

What splendor at the shrine must dwell!



The dazzling sun at noonday hour --

Forth from his flaming vase

Flinging o'er earth the golden shower

Till vale and mountains blaze --

But shows, O Lord, one beam of thine;

What, then, the day where thou dost shine!



O, how shall these dim eyes endure

That noon of living rays!

Or how our spirits, so impure,

Upon thy glory gaze!

Anoint, O Lord, anoint our sight,

And fit us for that world of light.