Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: Gentlest of all in realms above
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Tune: Memorial
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 188, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsGentlest of all in realms above,
Calm as the mild and meek-eyed dove,
Is perfect, and pure, and Christian love.
Refined from all of earthly dross,
Ambitious hopes it counts but loss,
And lingers with joy around the cross.
Heard ye that sound from seraph's tongue,
That glorious song the angels sung,
O'er Bethlehem's plains when Christ was young?
The sweetest of all its notes to me,
As sweet, no doubt, it is to thee,
Is "Peace on earth from sea to sea."
Yet peace, as a fruit, from love doth grow,
It blooms in the souls of saints below,
And ripens the more that Christ we know.
Death will dissolve all earthly ties,
But souls that are one below the skies,
In Christ, will be one in Paradise.