Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Come we who love the Lord
Topic: Christian Experience
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: Daniel Read
Meter: SM
Tune: Lisbon
Hymn Number: 352
Page Number: 118, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCOME, we who love the Lord,
And let our joys be known;
Join in a song of sweet accord
And thus surround the throne.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
But children of the heavenly King
May speak their joys abroad.
The men of grace have found
Glory begun below;
Celestial fruits on earthly ground
From faith and hope may grow.
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets,
Before we reach the heavenly fields,
Or walk the golden streets.
Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through Immanuel's ground
To fairer worlds on high.