Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: Since first thy word awakened my heart
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: A Fillmore
Meter: 8s and 7s peculiar
Tune: Stewart
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 306, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSince first thy word awaked my heart
Like light new dawning o'er me,
Where'er I turn my eyes, thou art
All light and love before me.
[Chorus] For, O we stand on Jordan's strand,
Our friends are passing over,
And just before, the shining shore,
We may almost discover.
Like him whose fetters dropped away
When light shone o'er his prison,
My soul now touched by mercy's ray,
Hath from its chain arisen.
My days are gliding swiftly by,
And I a pilgrim stranger,
Would not detain them as they fly,
Those hours of toil and danger.
We'll gird our lamps, my brethren dear,
Our distant home discerning;
Our absent Lord has left us word,
Let ev'ry lamp be burning.
Naught else I feel our bear or see,
All bonds of earth I sever;
Thee, O my Lord, and only thee,
I live for, now, and ever.
And shall the soul thou bidd'st be free
Return to bondage? never!
Thee, O my Lord, and only thee,
I live for, now, and ever.