Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Hail sweetest dearest tie that binds
Topic: Hope
Writer: <no first name given> Sutton
Composer: G Root
Meter: CM double
Tune: Varina
Hymn Number: 333
Page Number: 110, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHAIL, sweetest, dearest tie, that binds
Our glowing hearts in one!
Hail, sacred hope, that tunes our minds,
To harmony divine!
REF.-It is the hope, the blissful hope,
Which Jesus' grace has given;
The hope, when days and years are past,
We all shall meet in heaven.
What thought the northern wintry blast
Shall howl around our cot!
What though beneath an eastern sun
Be cast our distant lot!
REF.-Yet still we share the blissful hope, etc.
From eastern shores, from northern lands,
From western hill and plain;
From southern climes, the brother-bands
May hope to meet again.
REF.-It is the hope, the blissful hope, etc.
No lingering look, nor parting sigh,
Our future meeting knows;
There friendship beams from every eye,
And love immortal glows.
REF.-O sacred hope! O blissful hope! etc.