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Text:How Pleasant
Author:Watts
Tune:BURTON
Composer:Woodbury

456. How Pleasant

1 How pleasant, how divinely fair,
O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are!
With long desire my spirit faints
To meet th' assemblies of the saints.

2 Blest are the souls that find a place
Within the temple of thy grace;
There they behold thy gentle rays,
And seek thy face and learn thy praise.

3 Blest are the men whose hearts are set
To find the way to Zion's gate;
God is their strength; and thro' the road
They lean upon their helper, God.

Text Information
First Line: How pleasant, how divinely fair
Title: How Pleasant
Author: Watts
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: Hymns for Worship: Opening Hymns; Special Occasions: Reunion
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: BURTON
Composer: Woodbury
Meter: L. M.
Key: C Major
Notes: Public Domain.



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