Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Frequent the day of God returns
Topic: For the Lord's Day
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 202
Page Number: 193, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFrequent the day of God returns,
To shed its quickening beams;
And yet how slow devotion burns,
How languid are its flame!
Accept our faint attempts to love,
Our frailties, Lord, forgive,
We would be like thy saints above,
And praise thee while we live.
Increase, O Lord, our faith and hope,
And fit us to ascend,
Where th' assembly ne'er breaks up,
The Sabbath ne'er shall end.
Where we shall breathe in heavenly air,
With heavenly lustre shine;
Before the throne of God appear,
And feast on love divine.
Where we, in high seraphic strains,
Shall all our powers employ;
Delighted range the blissful plains,
And take our fill of joy.