Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: My God what silken cords are thine
Topic: God Perfect
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 255
Page Number: 241, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsMy God, what silken cords are thine!
How soft, and yet how strong!
While power, and truth, and love combine
To draw our souls along.
Thou saw'st us crush'd beneath the yoke
Of Satan and of sin:
Thy hand the iron bondage broke,
Our worthless hearts to win.
Comfort thro' all this vale of tears
In rich profusion flows,
And glory of unnumbered years,
Eternity bestows.
Drawn by such cords we'd onward move
'Till round thy throne we meet;
And captives, in the chains of love,
Embrace our conqueror's feet.