Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Blest be the dear uniting love
Topic: Parting of Christians
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 152
Page Number: 152, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBlest be the dear uniting love,
That will not let us part;
Our bodies may far off remove,
We still are one in heart.
Joined in one spirit to our Head,
Where he appoints we go;
And still in Jesus' footsteps tread,
And show his praise below.
O may we ever walk in him,
And nothing know beside;
Nothing desire, nothing esteem,
But Jesus crucified.
Closer and closer let us cleave,
To his beloved embrace;
Expect his fulness to receive,
And grace to answer grace.
Partakers of the Saviour's grace,
The same in mind and heart;
Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life, nor death, can part.
But let us hasten to that day,
Which shall our flesh restore;
When death shall all be done away,
And bodies part no more.