Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Soft be the gently breathing notes
Topic: The Church/The Lord's Supper
Writer: <no first name given> Collyer
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 514
Page Number: 315, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSoft be the gently breathing notes
That sing the Saviour's dying love;
Soft as the evening zephyr floats,
Soft as the tuneful lyres above:
Soft as the morning dews descend,
While warbling birds exulting soar;
So soft to our almighty Friend
Be every sigh our bosoms pour.
Pure as the sun's enlivening ray,
That scatters life and joy abroad;
Pure as the lucid orb of day,
That wide proclaims its Maker, God;
Pure as the breath of vernal skies,
So pure let our contrition be;
And purely let our sorrows rise
To him who bled upon the tree.