Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: How pleasant how divinely fair
Topic: Public Worship/Opening Hymns
Writer: <no first name given> Watts
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 686
Page Number: 412, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow pleasant, how divinely fair,
O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are!
With long desire my spirit faints
To meet the assemblies of thy saints.
My soul would rest in thine abode,
My panting heart cries out for God;
My God! my King! why should I be
So far from all my joys and thee!
Blest are the souls who find a place
Within the temple of thy grace;
There thy behold thy gentler rays,
And seek thy face, and learn thy praise.
Blest are the men whose hearts are set,
To find the way to Zion's gate;
God is their strength, and through the road
They lean upon their Helper, God.