A Selection of Spiritual Songs #790
Display Title: Like the eagle, upward, onward First Line: Like the eagle, upward, onward Author: H. Bonar Date: 1878
A Selection of Spiritual Songs #790
1 Like the eagle, upward, onward,
Let my soul in faith be borne:
calmly gazing skyward, sunward,
Let my eye unshrinking turn.
2 When the Truth, God's love revealing,
Sets the fettered spirit free,
Where it sheds its wondrous healing,
There, my Soul, thy rest shall be.
3 O may I no longer, dreaming,
Idly waste my golden day,
But each precious hour redeeming,
Upward, upward, press my way.
Source: The Morning Stars Sang Together: a book of religious songs for Sunday schools and the home circle #91
Horatius Bonar was born at Edinburgh, in 1808. His education was obtained at the High School, and the University of his native city. He was ordained to the ministry, in 1837, and since then has been pastor at Kelso. In 1843, he joined the Free Church of Scotland. His reputation as a religious writer was first gained on the publication of the "Kelso Tracts," of which he was the author. He has also written many other prose works, some of which have had a very large circulation. Nor is he less favorably known as a religious poet and hymn-writer. The three series of "Hymns of Faith and Hope," have passed through several editions.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872… Go to person page >| First Line: | Like the eagle, upward, onward |
| Author: | Horatius Bonar |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
Like the eagle, upward, onward. Pt. of "Shall this life of mine [ours] be wasted," p. 161, ii.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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