Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: O sweetly breathe the lyres above
Topic: The Gospel/Remission of Sins
Writer: <no first name given> Palmer
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 399
Page Number: 243, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO, sweetly breathe the lyres above,
When angels touch the quivering string,
And wake, to chant Immanuel's love,
Such strains as angel-lips can sing!
And sweet, on earth, the choral swell,
From mortal tongues of gladsome lays;
When pardoned souls their raptures tell,
And, grateful, hymn Immanuel's' praise.
Jesus, thy name our souls adore;
We own the bond that makes us thine;
And carnal joys, that charmed before,
For thy dear sake we now resign.
Our hearts, by dying love subdued,
Accept thine offered grace to-day;
Beneath the cross, with blood bedewed,
We bow, and give ourselves away.
In thee we trust -- on thee rely;
Though we are feeble, thou art strong;
O, keep us till our spirits fly
To join the bright, immortal throng!