LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 D (D.C.M.)
| | Writer(s): | John Mason
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1683
| | Bible Refs: | Rev 5:11
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 468
| Common Praise (Anglican C. of Canada)
| 1998
| 335
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 466
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard
| 1983
| 472
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 8
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 17
| Hymns Old & New, Complete Anglican Editi
| 2000
| 296
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 78
| New English Hymnal
| 1985
| 373
| Oxford Hymn Book
| 1925
| 220
| Songs of Praise
| 1925
| 264
| Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition
| 1931
| 526
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 402
| The English Hymnal
| 1906
| 404
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 20
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MUSIC
Baptist Hymn Book
| 66
| F
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 78
| F
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 8
| G
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Alternate Tunes
| OLD 137TH | 8 6 8 6 D (D.C.M.) | 1563 Day’s Psalter |
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| 1. How shall I sing that Majesty
Which angels do admire?
Let dust in dust and silence lie;
Sing, sing, ye heavenly choir.
Thousands of thousands
stand around
Thy throne, O God most high;
Ten thousand times
ten thousand sound
Thy praise; but who am I?
2. Thy brightness unto them appears,
Whilst I Thy footsteps trace;
A sound of God comes to my ears,
But they behold Thy face.
They sing because
Thou art their Sun;
Lord, send a beam on me;
For where heaven is
but once begun
There alleluias be.
3. Enlighten with faith’s
light my heart,
Inflame it with love’s fire;
Then shall I sing and bear a part
With that celestial choir.
I shall, I fear, be dark and cold,
With all my fire and light;
Yet when Thou dost
accept their gold,
Lord, treasure up my mite.
4. How great a being,
Lord, is Thine,
Which doth all beings keep!
Thy knowledge is the only line
To sound so vast a deep.
Thou art a sea without a shore,
A sun without a sphere;
Thy time is now and evermore,
Thy place is everywhere.
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