Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: When languor and disease invade
Topic: The New Life/Afflictions
Writer: <no first name given> Toplady
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1008
Page Number: 597, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'Tis sweet to look beyond my pains
And long to fly away:
Sweet to look inward, and attend
The whispers of his love;
Sweet to look upward to the place
Where Jesus pleads above:
Sweet to look back, and see my name
In life's fair book set down;
Sweet to look forward, and behold
Eternal joys my own:
Sweet to rejoice in lively hope,
That when my change shall come,
Angels shall hover round my bed,
And waft my spirit home:
Sweet in his faithfulness to rest,
Whose love can never end;
Sweet on his covenant of grace
For all things to depend.
If such the sweetness of the streams,
What must the fountain be,
Where saints and angels draw their bliss
Immediately from thee!
O may the unction of these truths
For ever with me stay;
Till, from her sin-worn cage dismiss'd,
My spirit flies away.