Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Vital spark of heavenly flame
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: PM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 317
Page Number: 295, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsVital spark of heavenly flame;
Quit, O quit this mortal frame!
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying;
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.
Hark! They whisper; angels say,
Sister spirit, come away;
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight?
Drowns my spirit, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
The world recedes; it disappears;
Heav'n opens on my eyes! My ears
With sounds seraphic ring;
Lend, lend your wings, I mount, I fly.
O grave! Where is thy victory?
O death! Where is thy sting?