Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Begin my tongue some heavenly theme
Topic: Trusting in the Promises of God
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 69
Page Number: 071, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBegin, my tongue, some heavenly theme,
And speak some wondrous thing;
The mighty works or mightier name,
Of our eternal King.
Tell of his wondrous faithfulness,
And sound his power abroad;
Sing the sweet promise of his grace,
And the performing God.
He that can dash whole worlds to death,
And make them when he please;
But speaks, and that almighty breath,
Fulfills his great decrees.
His every word of grace is strong
As that which built the skies;
The voice that rolls the stars along
Speaks all the promises.
He said, "let the wide heaven be spread,"
And heaven was stretched abroad;
"Abra'm, I'll be thy God," he said,
And he was Abra'm's God.
O might I hear thy heavenly tongue,
But whisper, "Thou art mine!"
Those gentle words should raise my song,
To notes almost divine.
How would my leaping heart rejoice,
And think my heaven secure;
I trust the all-creating voice,
And faith desires no more.