Hymn
The Sands of Time Are Sinking
TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM · 7.6.7.6 D · words Anne Ross Cousin · music 13th Century spring carol; first published in the Swedish Piae Cantones
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1.The sands of time are sinking,
The dawn of Heaven breaks;
The summer morn I've sighed for—
The fair, sweet morn awakes:
Dark, dark hath been the midnight,
But dayspring is at hand,
And glory, glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's land.
2.O Christ, He is the fountain,
The deep, sweet well of love!
The streams on earth I've tasted
More deep I'll drink above:
There to an ocean fullness
His mercy doth expand,
And glory, glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's land.
3.Oh! Well it is forever,
Oh! well forevermore,
My nest hung in no forest
Of all this death doomed shore:
Yea, let the vain world vanish,
As from the ship the strand,
While glory—glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's land.
4.There the red rose of Sharon
Unfolds its heartsome bloom
And fills the air of Heaven
With ravishing perfume:
Oh! To behold it blossom,
While by its fragrance fanned
Where glory—glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's land.
5.With mercy and with judgment
My web of time He wove,
And aye, the dews of sorrow
Were lustered with His love;
I'll bless the hand that guided,
I'll bless the heart that planned
When throned where glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's land.
Try these words on another tune
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- AURELIA — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
- EWING — Alexander C. Ewing
- PASSION CHORALE — Hans Leo Hassler
- WIE LIEBLICH IST DER MAIEN — Johann Steuerlein
- WOODBIRD — German, 17th century
Other words for this tune
- Gentle Mary Laid Her Child — Joseph S. Cook
- The Dominion of Jesus Christ — The Psalter, 1912
- Commemoration and Praise — The Psalter, 1912
- Delight in Church Ordinances — The Psalter, 1912
- Hosanna, Loud Hosanna — Jennette Threlfall
- In Heavenly Love Abiding — Anna Laetitia Waring
- Jerusalem the Golden — Bernard of Cluny
- Lead On, O King Eternal — Ernest W. Shurtleff
- O Day of Rest and Gladness — Christopher Wordsworth
- O Jesus, I Have Promised — John Ernest Bode
- O Sacred Head, Now Wounded — Bernard of Clairvaux
- O Word of God Incarnate — William Walsham How
- Of The Father's Love Begotten — Aurelius Prudentius Clemens
- Peril and Prayer — The Psalter, 1912
- Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers — Laurentius Laurenti
- Sin and Forgiveness — The Psalter, 1912
- Sing to the Lord of Harvest — John S. B. Monsell
- Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus — George Duffield
- The Church's One Foundation — Samuel John Stone
- The Good Shepherd — The Psalter, 1912
- True Blessedness — The Psalter, 1912
- Trust in the Mercy of God — The Psalter, 1912
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