Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Thy goodness Lord our souls confess
Topic: God/Perfections
Writer: Thomas Gibbons
Composer: George Kingsley
Meter: CM
Tune: Elizabethtown
Hymn Number: 297
Page Number: 099, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHY goodness, Lord, our souls confess;
Thy goodness we adore-
A spring whose waters never fail,
A sea without a shore.
Sun, moon and stars thy love attest
In every golden ray;
Love draws the curtains of the night,
And love brings back the day.
The bounty every season crowns
With all the bliss it yields,
With joyful clusters loads the vines,
With strengthening grain the fields.
But chiefly thy compassion, Lord,
Is in the gospel seen;
There, like a sun, thy mercy shines,
Without a cloud between.