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Hymn: O could our thoughts and wishes fly (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: O could our thoughts and wishes fly

Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven

Writer: <no first name given> Steele

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1128

Page Number: 670, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O could our thoughts and wishes fly

Above these gloomy shades,

To those bright worlds beyond the sky,

Which sorrow ne'er invades!



There joys, unseen by mortal eyes,

Or reason's feeble ray,

In ever-blooming prospect rise,

Unconscious of decay.'



Lord, send a beam of light divine,

To guide our upward aim!

With one reviving touch of thine, 

Our languid hearts inflame.



Then shall, on faith's sublimest wing,

Our ardent wishes rise

To those bright scenes where pleasures spring,

Immortal to the skies.