Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: As pants the hart for cooling streams (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: As pants the hart for cooling streams

Topic: Reclaimed

Writer: <no first name given> Tate and Brady

Composer: George Kingsley

Meter: CM

Tune: Elizabethtown

Hymn Number: 299

Page Number: 099, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

AS PLANTS the hart for cooling streams,

When heated in the chase,

So pants my soul, O Lord, for thee,

And thy refreshing grace.



For thee, my God, the living God,

My thirsty soul doth pine;

O when shall I behold thy face,

Thou Majesty Divine?



I sigh to think of happier days,

When thou, O Lord, wast nigh;

When every heart was tuned to praise,

And none more blest than I.



Why restless, why cast down, my soul?

Trust God, who will employ

His aid for thee, and change those sighs

To thankful hymns of joy.