Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Now let our souls on wings sublime
Topic: The New Life/Aspiration
Writer: <no first name given> Gibbons
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 806
Page Number: 471, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNow let our souls, on wings sublime,
Rise from the vanities of time.
Draw back the parting vail, and see
The glories of eternity.
Born by a new, celestial birth,
Why should we grovel here on earth?
Why grasp at vain the fleeting toys,
So near to heaven's eternal joys?
Shall aught beguile us on the road,
While we are walking back to God?
For stangers into life we come,
And dying is but going home.
Welcome, sweet hour of full discharge,
That sets our longing souls at large,
Unbinds our chains, breaks up our cell,
And gives us with our God to dwell.
To dwell with God, to feel his love,
Is the full heaven enjoyed above;
And the sweet expectation now
Is the young dawn of heaven below.