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
LyicsEternal 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!