Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1843
Compiler: A Campbell/ W Scott/ B W Stone/ J T Johnson
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Come we that love the Lord
Topic: Christian Honors and Privileges
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune: Lonsdale
Hymn Number: Song 22 (part I)
Page Number: 096 (part I), click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCOME, we that love the Lord,
And let our joys be known;
Join in a song with sweet accord,
And thus surround the throne.
The sorrows of the mind
Be banish'd from this place!
Religion never was design'd
To make our pleasures less.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
But children of the heavenly King
May speak their joys abroad.
The God that rules on high,
And thunders when he please,
That rides upon the stormy sky,
And manages the seas;
This mighty God is ours,
Our Father and our Love;
He will send down his heav'nly powers
To carry us above.
There shall we see his face,
And never, never sin;
There, from the rivers of his grace,
Drink endless pleasures in.
Yes, and before we rise
To that immortal state,
The thoughts of such amazing bliss
Shall constant joys create.
The men of grace have found
Glory begun below;
Celestial fruits on earthly ground
From faith and hope may grow.
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets,
Before we reach the heav'nly fields,
Or walk the golden streets.
Then let our songs abound,
And ev'ry tear be dry;
We're marching o'er this hallow'd ground,
To fairer worlds on high.