Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: When languor and disease invade
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: North Salem
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 065, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'Tis sweet to look beyond my pains,
and long to fly away,
and long to fly away,
'Tis sweet to look beyond my pains,
and long to fly away.
Sweet to look inward, and attend
The whispers of his love;
Sweet to look upward, to the place
Where Jesus pleads above.
Sweet to look back, and see my name
In life's fair book set down;
Sweet to look forward, and behold
Eternal joys my own.
Sweet, to reflect how grace divine
My sins on Jesus laid;
Sweet, to remember that his blood
My debt of suffering paid.
Sweet, in his righteousness to stand,
Which saves from second death
Sweet to experience, day by day,
His Spirit's quickening breath.
Sweet, on his faithfulness to rest,
Whose love can never end;
Sweet on his covenant of grace,
For all things to depend.
Sweet, in the confidence of faith,
To trust his firm decrees;
Sweet to lie passive in his hands,
And know no will but his.
If such the sweetness of the streams
What must the fountain be,
Where saints and angels draw their bliss
Immediately from thee?