Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: My soul forsakes her vain delight
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 617
Page Number: 325, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsMY soul forsakes her vain delight
And bids the world farewell;
On things of sense why fix my sight?
Why on its pleasures dwell?
There's nothing round this spacious earth
That suits my souls' desire;
To boundless joy, and solid mirth,
My nobler thoughts aspire.
No longer will I ask its love,
Nor seek its friendship more;
The happiness that I approve
Is not within its power.
Oh! for the pinions of a dove,
T' ascend the heavenly road:
There shall I share my Saviour's love
There shall I dwell with God.