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Text:How Blest The Shining Forms Above
Author:Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Tune:MARTYRDOM
Arranger:Ralph E. Hudson
Composer:Hugh Wilson
Media:MIDI file

16284. How Blest The Shining Forms Above

How blest the shin­ing forms above,
Who dwell so near their God;
They ever taste His rich­est love,
Nor fear His lift­ed rod.

Thus freed from ev­ery toil and care,
Fain would we leave our clay;
Some friend­ly ser­aph, come and bear
Our lin­ger­ing souls away.

When shall we reach the bliss­ful shore?
Lord, call Thy pri­son­ers home;
Our hearts and joys are gone be­fore,
Come death, and Je­sus, come.

But why im­patient of de­lay,
So ea­ger to be gone?
If God com­mands a long­er stay,
His so­ver­eign will be done.

Text Information
First Line: How blest the shin­ing forms above
Title: How Blest The Shining Forms Above
Author: Benjamin Beddome, 1717-1795
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818)
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: LYNTON by Arthur J. Jamouneau, LYTHAM by James T. Lightwood, MANOAH by Gioachino A. Rossini
Tune Information
Name: MARTYRDOM
Composer: Hugh Wilson (1800)
Arranger: Ralph E. Hudson (1885)
Meter: CM
Key: G Major or modal
Copyright: Public Domain



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