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Text: | How Shall I Sing That Majesty |
Author: | John Mason (1645?-1694) |
Tune: | HURRLE |
Composer: | Walter MacNutt (1910-1996) |
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 hallelujahs 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.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How shall I sing that majesty |
Title: | How Shall I Sing That Majesty |
Author: | John Mason (1645?-1694) |
Meter: | CMD |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1998 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Angels; Arts and Music; Communion of Saints(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HURRLE |
Composer: | Walter MacNutt (1910-1996) |
Meter: | CMD |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | © 1973 Waterloo Music Co., Ltd. |