4597. Not Always on the Mount

1. Not always on the mount may we
Rapt in the heav’nly vision be:
The shores of thought and feeling know
The Spirit’s tidal ebb and flow.

2. Lord it is good abiding here,
We cry, the heav’nly presence near:
The vision vanishes, our eyes
Are lifted into vacant skies.

3. Yet hath one such exalted hour
Upon the soul redeeming power,
And its strength, through after days,
We travel our appointed ways,

4. Till all the lowly vale grows bright,
Transfigured in remembered light,
And in untiring souls we bear
The freshness of the upper air.

5. The mount for vision: but below
The paths of daily duty go,
And nobler life therein shall own
The pattern on the mountain shown.

Text Information
First Line: Not always on the mount may we
Title: Not Always on the Mount
Author: Frederick L. Hosmer (1882)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: first published in the Chicago Unity, April 1, 1884; a lesson from the Transfiguration, 1882
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: TRANSYLVANIA, from a 16th Century Hungarian chorale, arranged by Robert L. Sanders
Tune Information
Name: ONEONTA
Composer: Walter Henry Hall (1918)
Meter: LM
Incipit: 35514 43251 76565
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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