Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: How various and how new
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Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: SM
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Hymn Number: 315
Page Number: 293, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow various and how new,
Are thy compassions, Lord!
Each morning shall thy mercy shew,
Each night thy truth record
Thy goodness, like the sun,
Dawn'd on our early days,
Ere infant reason had begun
To form our lips to praise.
Each object we beheld
Gave pleasure to our eyes;
And nature all our senses held
In bands of sweet surprise.
But pleasures more refin'd
Awaited that bless'd day,
When light arose upon our mind,
And chas'd our sins away.
Who new thy mercies then!
How sovereign and how free!
Our souls that had been dead in sin,
Were made alive to thee.
Now we expect a day
Still brighter far than this,
When death shall bear our souls away
To realms of light and bless.
There rapturous scenes of joy
Shall burst upon our sight;
And every pain, and tear and sigh,
Be drowned in endless night.
Beneath thy balmy wing,
O sun of righteousness,
Our happy souls shall sit and sing
The wonders of thy grace.
Nor shall that radiant day
So joyfully begun,
In evening shadows die away,
Beneath the setting sun.
How various and how new
Are thy compassions, Lord!
Eternity thy love shall shew,
And all thy truth record.