Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Lord of the worlds above
Topic: Church/Zion
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: John Darwall
Meter: HM
Tune: Darwall
Hymn Number: 422
Page Number: 139, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLORD of the worlds above,
How pleasant and how fair
The swellings of thy love,
Thine earthly temples are!
To thine abode my heart aspires,
With warm desires to see my God.
O happy souls, who pray
Where God appoints to hear!
O happy men, who pay
Their constant service there!
They praise thee still; and happy they
Who love the way to Zion's hill.
They go from strength to strength,
Through this dark vale of tears,
Till each arrives at length,
Till each in heaven appears:
O glorious seat, when God, our King,
Shall thither bring our willing feet.