The Cyber Hymnal ‎#12580

12580. Eternal God, Our Wondering Souls

1 Eternal God, our wondering souls
Admire Thy matchless grace;
That Thou wilt walk, that Thou wilt dwell,
With Adam’s worthless race.

2 O lead me to that happy path,
Where I my God may meet;
Tho’ hosts of foes begird it round,
Tho’ briars wound my feet.

3 Cheered with Thy converse I can trace
The desert with delight:
Thro’ all the gloom one smile of Thine
Can dissipate the night.

4 Nor shall I thro’ eternal days
A restless pilgrim roam:
Thy hand, that now directs my course,
Shall soon convey me home.

5 I ask not Enoch’s rapturous flight
To realms of heav’nly day:
Nor seek Elijah’s fiery steeds,
To bear this flesh away.

6 Joyful my spirit will consent
To drop its mortal load,
And hail the sharpest pangs of death,
That break its way to God.

Text Information

• First Line: Eternal God, our wondering souls
• Title: Eternal God, Our Wondering Souls
• Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Source: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755)
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: FARNHAM, traditional English tune; FAR AND NEAR by Johann K. Sapzier

Tune Information

• Name: GERONTIUS
• Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1868)
• Meter: CM
• Key: A Major
• Copyright: Public Domain