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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Eternal Source of every joy (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Eternal Source of every joy

Topic: Times and Seasons/Seed-Time and Harvest

Writer: <no first name given> Doddridge

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1230

Page Number: 736, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Eternal source of every joy,

Well may thy praise our lips employ,

While in thy temple we appear,

Whose goodness crowns the circling year.



The flowery spring at thy command

Embalms the air and paints the land;

The summer rays with vigor shine,

To raise the corn, and cheer the vine.



Thy hand in autumn richly pours

Through all our coasts redundant stores,

And winters, softened by thy care,

No more a face of horror wear.



Seasons and months and weeks and days

Demand successive songs of praise;

Still be the cheerful homage paid

With opening light and evening shade!



O! may our more harmonious tongues

In worlds unknown pursue the songs;

And in those brighter courts adore,

Where days and years revolve no more!