Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: I send the joys of earth away (FL)

Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns

Date: 1818

Compiler: Rice Haggard

Publisher/Printer: John Norvell

First Line: I send the joys of earth away

Topic: Penitential

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 23

Page Number: 027, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

I send the joys of earth away,

Away ye tempters of the mind;

False as the smooth deceitful sea,

And empty as the whistling wind.



Your streams were floating me along

Down to the gulph of black despair;

And while I listened to your song,

Your streams had e'en conveyed me there.



Lord, I adore thy matchless grace,

That warned me of that dark abyss;

That drew me from those treacherous seas,

And bade me seek superior bliss.



Now to the shining realms above,

I stretch my hands and glance my eyes;

O for the pinions of a dove,

To bear me to the upper skies!



There from the bosom of my God,

Oceans of endless pleasure roll;

There would I fix my last abode,

And drown the sorrows of my soul.