Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Now let our souls on wings sublime
Topic: A View of Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 208
Page Number: 198, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNow let our souls, on wings sublime,
Rise from the vanities of time;
Draw back the parting veil, and see
The glories of eternity.
Born by a new celestial birth,
Why should we grovel here on earth?
Why grasp at transitory toys,
So near to heaven's eternal joys?
Shall aught beguile us on the road,
When we are walking back to God?
For strangers into life we come,
And dying is but going home.
O the sweet hour of full discharge,
That sets our longing souls at large;
Unbinds our chains breaks up our cell,
And gives us with our God to dwell.
To dwell with God, to feel his love,
Is the full heaven enjoy'd above;
And the sweet expectation now
In the young dawn of heaven below.