Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Vital spark of heavenly flame
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 626
Page Number: 330, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsVITAL spark of heavenly flame,
Quit, oh! quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying--
Oh! 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--
Heaven opens on my eyes!--my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!--
Lend, lend you wings! I mount! I fly!
"O grave! where is thy victory!
O death! where is thy sting!"