Stay, Master, Stay

Stay, Master, stay, upon this heavenly hill

Author: Samuel Greg
Published in 11 hymnals

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1 Stay, Master, stay upon this heavenly hill;
A little longer, let us linger still;
With all the mighty ones of old beside,
Near to God’s holy presence still abide;
Before the throne of light we trembling stand,
And catch a glimpse into the spirit land.

2 Stay, Master, stay! we breathe a purer air;
This life is not the life that waits us there:
Thoughts, feelings, flashes, glimpses come and go;
We cannot speak them, nay, we do not know;
Wrapt in this cloud of light we seem to be
The things we fain would grow eternally.

3 "No!" saith the Lord, "the hour is past," we go;
Our home, our life, our duties lie below.
While here we kneel upon the mount of prayer,
The plough lies waiting in the furrow there!
Here we sought God that we might know His will;
There we must do it, serve Him, seek Him still.

4 If man aspires to reach the throne of God,
O’er the dull plains of earth must lie the road:
He who best does his lowly duty here,
Shall mount the highest in a nobler sphere:
At God’s own feet our spirits seek their rest,
And he is nearest Him who serves Him best.

Source: African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #127

Author: Samuel Greg

Greg, Samuel, was born in Manchester, Sept. 6, 1804, and educated by Dr. Lant Carpenter, at Bristol, and at the Edinburgh University. He subsequently became a millowner at Bollington, near Macclesfield. He died, May 14, 1877. The addresses given by him at services which he conducted for his workmen at Bollington were published posthumously as A Layman's Legacy, 1877, with a prefatory note by Dean Stanley. He was also author of Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, 2nd ed. 1869. Some of his short poems were appended to his Layman's Legacy. He is known to hymnody as the author of:— 1. My soul in death was sleeping. New Life in Christ. Appeared in his Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, and included in the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, No. 40… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Stay, Master, stay, upon this heavenly hill
Title: Stay, Master, Stay
Author: Samuel Greg
Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

YORKSHIRE

John Wainwright (b. Stockport, England, 1723; d. Stockport, 1768) wrote YORKSHIRE for [the] text [Christian's awake, salute the happy morn, by John Byrom] in 1750. The tune was first sung on Christmas Day, 1750, in the parish church of Stockport; it was first published in Caleb Ashworth's Collection…

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UNDE ET MEMORES


MOUNT TABOR


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Instances (1 - 11 of 11)

A. M. E. C. Hymnal #519

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African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #127

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Hymns and Chorales #108

Hymns and Psalms #158

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S. Mary's hymnal #228

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The Churchman's Treasury of Song #281b

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The Cyber Hymnal #6161

The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes #586

The Methodist Hymnal #122

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Worship Song #187

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