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Hymn: Glorious things of thee are spoken (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

First Line: Glorious things of thee are spoken

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: 8s and 7s double

Tune: Jewell

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 201, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Glorious things of thee are spoken, 

Zion, city of our God!

He, whose word cannot be broken,

Form'd thee for his own abode:

On the Rock of ages founded,

What can shake they sure repose?

With salvation's wall surrounded, 

Thou mayst smile at all thy foes.



See, the streams of living waters,

Springing from eternal love,

Well supply thy sons and daughters,

And all fear of drought remove:

Who can faint while such a river

Ever flows, their thirst t'assuage,

Grace which like the Lord the giver,

Never fails from age to age.



Round in each habitation hov'ring,

See the cloud and fire appear,

For a glory and a cov'ring, 

Showing that the Lord is near;

Thus, deriving from their banner

Light by night and shade by day,

Safe they feed upon the manna

Which he gives them when they pray.



Blest inhabitants of Zion, 

Wash'd in the Redeemer's blood!

Jesus, whom their souls rely on,

Makes them kings and priests to God.

 Tis his love his people raises

With himself to reign as kings;

And, as priests, his solemn praises 

Each for a thank off'ring brings.



Saviour, since of Zion's city 

I through grace a member am,

Let the world deride or pity,

I will glory in thy name;

Fading is the worldling's treasure,

All his boasted pomp and show!

Solid joys and lasting pleasure 

None but Zion's children know.