Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: How happy that immortal mind
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: LM
Tune: The Pilgrim's Rest
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 236, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow happy that immortal mind
Who rests beneath Jehovah's wings!
Who sweet employment there can find,
Without the help of earthly things.
The world may round me rage and fight,
And lay in dust their highest throne,
But nothing can that soul affright
Who lives for God, and him alone.
When such do lay their bodies by,
And from their annual labours cease,
They'll find a band of angels nigh
To wait their souls to realms of peace.
They'll wing their way to mansions fair,
Where Christ the Lord in glory reigns,
Meet hosts of shining spirits there,
Beyond the reach of mortal pains.
Oh may I realize and know
My span of time, how swift it flies!
I soon must quit this house below,
To praise my Lord above the skies.