Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: The turf shall be my fragrant shrine
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Meter: LM double
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Page Number: 090, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThe turf shall be my fragrant shrine,
My temple, Lord, that arch of thine,
My censor's breath the mountain air,
And solitude shall hear my prayer:
My choir shall be the moon-lit waves,
When murm'ring homeward to their caves,
Or when the stillness of the sea
E'en more than music breathes of Thee.
I'll seek by day some glade unknown,
All light and silence like thy throne,
And the pale stars shall be at night
The only eyes that watch my rite.
Thy heaven, on which 't is bliss to look,
Shall be my pure and shining book;
Where I shall read, in words of flame,
The glories of thy wondrous name.