LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Edward Denny
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: |
| | Bible Refs: |
| Believers Hymn Book
| 1981
| 75
| Hymns for The Little Flock
| 1981
| 441
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MUSIC
 Baptist Hymn Book
| 501
| E
| Believers Hymn Book
| 75
| Eb
| Hymns of Faith
| 258
| F
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 6
| F
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 37
| F
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 139
| F
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Alternate Tunes
| MERTON | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | Henry Kemble Oliver |
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| 1. Hope of our hearts, O Lord, appear!
Thou glorious Star of day,
Shine forth, and chase
the dreary night,
With all our tears, away.
2. Strangers on earth,
we wait for Thee;
Oh, leave the Father's throne!
Come with a shout of victory, Lord,
And claim us as Thine own.
3. Oh! bid the bright archangel now
The trump of God prepare,
To call Thy saints - the quick, the dead -
To meet Thee in the air.
4. No resting-place we seek on earth,
No loveliness we see;
Our eye is on the royal crown,
Prepared for us and Thee.
5. But, Jesus, Lord! However bright
That crown of joy above,
What is it to the brighter hope
Of dwelling in Thy love?
6. What to the joy, the deeper joy,
Unmingled, pure, and free,
Of union with our living Head,
Of fellowship with Thee?
7. This joy e’en now on earth is ours;
But only, Lord, above,
Our hearts, without a pang,
shall know
The fulness of Thy love.
8. There, near Thy heart,
upon the throne,
Thy ransomed Church shall see
What grace was in
the bleeding Lamb,
Who died to make us free.
9. **alt verses
10. But blessed Lord, however bright
That crown of joy above,
What is it to the brighter hope
Of dwelling in Thy love?
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