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Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Lord we expect a day (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: Lord we expect a day

Topic: Heaven/Hope of

Writer: Unknown Unknown

Composer: Isaac Smith

Meter: SM

Tune: Silver Street

Hymn Number: 97

Page Number: 041, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

LORD, we expect a day

Still brighter far than this,

When death shall bear our souls away

To realms of light and bliss.



There rapturous scenes of joy

Shall burst upon our sight;

And every pain, and tear, and sigh

Be drown'd in endless night.



Beneath Thy balmy wing,

O Sun of righteousness!

Our happy souls shall sit and sing

The wonders of Thy grace.



Nor shall the radiant day,

So joyfully begun,

In evening shadows die away

Beneath the setting sun.