Text: | 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them to the Lord |
Author: | H. M. Butler (1833-1918) |
Tune: | YANWORTH |
Composer: | John Barnard (born 1948) |
1 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them to the Lord,
and give to God our thanks with one accord;
it is our joy and duty, all our days
to lift our hearts in grateful thanks and praise.
2 Above the level of the former years,
the mire of sin, the slough of guilty fears,
the mist of doubt, the blight of love's decay —
O Lord of light, lift all our hearts today!
3 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 every Christian soul!
4 Above the storms that darken human life -
pride, jealousy and envy, rage and strife;
where cold mistrust holds friend and friend apart —
O Lord of love, lift every Christian heart!
5 Then, with the trumpet call as Christ appears,
'Lift up your hearts!' rings, pealing in our ears:
still shall our hearts respond with full accord —
'We lift them up, we lift them to the Lord!'
Text Information | |
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First Line: | 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them to the Lord |
Author: | H. M. Butler (1833-1918) |
Meter: | 10 10 10 10 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1987 |
Topic: | Christ the Friend of Sinners; God's Church: Penitence and Prayer; Lent 1, The King and the Kingdom: Temptation(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | YANWORTH |
Composer: | John Barnard (born 1948) |
Meter: | 10 10 10 10 |
Incipit: | 53521 14523 |
Key: | B♭ Major |
Notes: | Alternative tune: WOODLANDS (366a) |