Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Send the joys of earth away
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Hymn Number: 662
Page Number: 356, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI SEND the joys of earth away;
Away, ye tempters of the mind,
False as the smooth, deceitful sea,
And empty as the whistling wind.
Your streams were floating me along
Down to the gulf of black despair;
And while I listened to your song,
Your streams have ev'n conveyed me there.
Lord, I adore thy matchless grace,
That warned me of that dark abyss,
That drew me from those dangerous seas,
And bad me seek superior bliss.
Now to the shining realms above,
I stretch my hands, and glance mine eyes;
Oh! for the pinions of a dove,
To bear me to the upper skies!
There, from the presence of my God
Oceans of endless pleasure roll;
There would I fix my last abode,
And drown the sorrows of my soul.