Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: Love and union Zion's basis
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune: Lyttleton
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 153, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLove and union, Zion's basis,
Sweet as summer's morning air;
No affliction, time, nor places
Can the blessing from us tear;
Union feasts our souls with pleasure,
And increases love and zeal;
Union is our heav'nly treasure,
And its blessedness we feel.
All who join in true devotion
Partners of eternal rest,
Feel this union, like an ocean,
Roll within their peaceful breasts;
They can sing eternal praises
Unto God and to the Lamb,
Though the world around us gazes,
We do feel a heavenly calm.
Oh! How peaceful and how lovely
Are the souls where union reigns;
Such are good and kind and holy,
Happy souls who union gain;
'Tis the offspring of kind Heaven,
Pure and lovely, all divine;
Union, gentle, mild, and even,
Union, I will make thee mine.