Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Open heavenly gates disclose
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 7s 6s and 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 568
Page Number: 293, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsOPEN, heavenly gates, disclose
To our raptured vision,
All the blissful joy that flows
From the true religion.
Lo! we lift our longing eyes;
Break you intervening skies;
Sun of righteousness arise;
Ope the gates of paradise.
Floods of everlasting light,
Flash on high before him;
Myriads, with supreme delight,
Constantly adore him:
Angel-trumps resound his fame,
Lutes of lucid gold proclaim,
All the glory of his name-
Heaven echoing the theme.
All the eldership arise
From their princely station,
Shout his glorious victories-
Sing his great salvation:
Cast their crowns before his throne,
And in reverential tone,
Render praise to God alone-
"Holy, holy, holy One!"
Hark! the symphonies divine,
Seem, methinks, to seize us;
In their holy praise we join
To our glorious Jesus:
Sweetest sound on seraph's song,
Highest note of mortal's tongue,
Sweetest anthem ever sung,
Let its riches flow along.