Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: 'Tis pure delight without alloy
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Hymn Number: 363
Page Number: 366, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics'Tis pure delight, without alloy,
Jesus to hear thy name;
My spirit leaps with inward joy,
I feel the sacred flame.
My passions hold a pleasing reign,
While love inspires my breast;
Love, the divinest of the train,
And sovereign of the rest.
This is the grace must live and sing,
When faith and hope shall cease,
Must sound from every joyful string,
Thro' the sweet world of bliss.
Let life immortal seize my clay,
Let love refine my blood:
Her flames can bear my soul away,
Can bring me near my God.
Swift I ascend the heavenly place,
And hasten to my home;
I leap to meet thy kind embrace,
I come my Lord, I come.
Sink down, ye separating hills,
Let guilt and death remove:
'Tis love that drives my chariot wheel
And death must yield to love.