Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Lord we expect a day
Topic: Public Worship/Opening
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM double
Tune: Ain
Hymn Number: 538
Page Number: 194, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLord, 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 drowned 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.