Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: Earth has a joy unknown in heaven
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
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Hymn Number: 63
Page Number: 087, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsEarth has a joy unknown in heaven,
The new-born joy of sins forgiven!
Tears of such pure and deep delight,
O angels! Never dimmed your sight.
You saw of old on chaos rise
The beauteous pillars of the skies;
You know where morn exulting springs,
And evening folds her drooping wings.
Bright heralds of th' Eternal Will,
Abroad his errands you fulfil:
Or, throned in floods of beamy day,
Symphonius in his presence play.
Loud is the song - the heavenly plain
Is shaken with the choral strain;
And dying echoes floating far,
Draw music from each chiming star.
But I amid your choirs shall shine,
And all your knowledge shall be mine;
You on your harps must lean to hear
A secret chord that mine will bear.