Text: | How good, Lord, to be here! |
Author: | Joseph Armitage Robinson, 1858-1933 |
Tune: | CARLISLE |
Composer: | Charles Lockhart, 1745-1815 |
1 How good, Lord, to be here!
your glory fills the night;
your face and garments, like the sun,
shine with unborrowed light.
2 How good, Lord, to be here,
your beauty to behold,
where Moses and Elijah stand,
your messengers of old.
3 Fulfiller of the past,
promise of things to be:
we hail your body glorified,
and our redemption see.
4 Before we taste of death,
we see your Kingdom come;
we still would hold the vision bright,
and make this hill our home.
5 How good, Lord, to be here!
yet we may not remain;
but since you bid us leave the mount
come with us to the plain.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | How good, Lord, to be here! |
Author: | Joseph Armitage Robinson, 1858-1933 (alt.) |
Meter: | 66.86 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Discipleship; Fulfilment; Glory of God(9 more...) |
Copyright: | Words by permission of Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. |
Notes: | Now Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CARLISLE |
Composer: | Charles Lockhart, 1745-1815 |
Meter: | 66.86 |
Key: | D Major |
Notes: | A higher setting may be found at No. 449 |