Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Like the eagle upward onward
Topic: Christian/Aspirations
Writer: H Bonar
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune: Dijon
Hymn Number: 503
Page Number: 170, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLIKE the eagle, upward, onward,
Let my soul in faith be borne;
Calmly gazing, skyward, sunward,
Let my eye unshrinking turn.
Where the cross, God's love revealing,
Sets the fettered spirit free;
Where it sheds its wondrous healing,
There, my soul, thy rest shall be.
O may I no longer, dreaming,
Idly waste my golden day,
But, each precious hour redeeming,
Upward, onward, press my way.