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Hymn: O for a shout of joy (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: O for a shout of joy

Topic: Church/Stability of

Writer: Unknown Unknown

Composer: John Darwall

Meter: HM

Tune: Darwall

Hymn Number: 150

Page Number: 061, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O for a shout of joy,

High as the theme we sing!

To this divine employ

Your hearts and voices bring:

Sound, sound, thro' all the earth abroad,

The love, th' eternal love, of God.



Unnumber'd myriads stand,

Of seraphs bright and fair;

Or bow at His right hand,

And pay their homage there;

But strive in vain, with loudest chord,

To sound the wondrous love of God.