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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Awake you saints and raise your eyes (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Awake you saints and raise your eyes

Topic: The New Life/Aspiration

Writer: <no first name given> Doddridge

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 815

Page Number: 477, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Awake, you saints, and raise your eyes,

And raise your voices high;

Awake, and praise that sov'reign love

That shows salvation nigh.



On all the wings of time it flies;

Each moment brings it near;

Then welcome each declining day,

Welcome each closing year!



Not many years their round shall run,

Not many mornings rise,

'Ere all its glories stand reveal'd

To our admiring eyes.



You wheels of nature, speed your course,

You mortal pow'rs, decay;

Fast as you bring the night of death,

You bring eternal day.