Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: Rise my soul and stretch thy wings
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: J Tomson
Meter: 7s and 6s trochaic
Tune: Pinkerton
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 236, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsRise, my soul, and stretch thy wings,
Thy better portion trace;
Rise from transitory things
Toward heaven, thy native place.
Sun and moon and stars decay,
Time shall soon this earth remove;
Rise, my soul, and haste away
To seats prepared above.
Rivers to the ocean run,
Nor stay in all their course;
Fire ascending seeks the sun,
Both speed them to their source.
So a soul that's born of God
Pants to view his glorious face;
Upward tends to his abode,
To rest in his embrace.