Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New ‎#395

395. Lift up your hearts!

1 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them, Lord, to thee;
here at thy feet none other may we see:
'Lift up your hearts!' E'en so, with one accord,
we lift them up, we lift them to the Lord.

2 Above the swamps of subterfuge and shame,
the deeds, the thoughts, that honour may not name,
the halting tongue that dares not tell the whole,
O Lord of truth, lift ev'ry Christian soul.

3 Lift ev'ry gift that thou thyself hast giv'n:
low lies the best till lifted up to heav'n;
low lie the bounding heart, the teeming brain,
till, sent from God, they mount to God again.

4 Then, as the trumpet-call, in after years,
'Lift up your hearts!' rings pealing in our ears,
still shall those hearts respond, with full accord,
'We lift them up, we lift them to the Lord!'

Text Information

• First Line: 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them, Lord to thee
• Title: Lift up your hearts!
• Author: Henry Montagu Butler, 1833-1918 (alt.)
• Meter: 10 10 10 10
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2000
• Topic: Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Offertory Hymn; Year B: Proper 8

Tune Information

• Name: WOODLANDS
• Composer: Walter Greatorex, 1877-1949
• Meter: 10 10 10 10
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: © Oxford University Press. Used by permission from "Enlarged Songs of Praise"