Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Give me the wings of faith to rise
Topic: The New Life/Aspiration
Writer: <no first name given> Watts
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 817
Page Number: 478, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsGive me the wings of faith, to rise
Within the vail, and see
The saints above, how great their joys,
How bright their glories be.
Once they were mourning here below,
And bathed their couch with tears;
They wrestled hard, as we do now,
With sins, and doubts, and fears.
I ask them whence their victory came;
They, with united breath,
Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to his death.
They marked the footsteps that he trod;
His zeal inspired their breast;
And, following their incarnate God,
Possessed the promised rest.
Our glorious Leader claims our praise,
For his own pattern given;
While the long cloud of witnesses
Shows the same path to heaven.