The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook ‎#547

547. 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them to the Lord

1 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them to the Lord,
and give to God our thanks with one accord;
it is our joy and duty, all our days
to lift our hearts in grateful thanks and praise.

2 Above the level of the former years,
the mire of sin, the slough of guilty fears,
the mist of doubt, the blight of love's decay —
O Lord of light, lift all our hearts today!

3 Lift every gift that You Yourself have given;
low lies the best till lifted up to heaven:
low lie the bounding heart, the teeming brain,
till, sent from God, they mount to God again.

4 Then, as the trumpet-call, in after years,
'Lift up your hearts!' rings pealing in our ears,
still shall those hearts respond with full accord,
'We lift them up, we lift them to the Lord!'

Text Information

• First Line: 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them to the Lord
• Author: Henry Montagu Butler, 1833-1918
• Meter: 10 10 10 10
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2004
• Source: Vs. 1-2 adapt.: Compilers of Hymns for Today's Church, 1982; Vs. 3-4 adapt.: Compilers of Church Hymnary, 3rd edition, 1973
• Notes: Now Public Domain (tune); A simplified version of the accompaniment is to be found at 301

Tune Information

• Name: WOODLANDS
• Composer: Walter Greatorex, 1877-1949
• Meter: 10 10 10 10
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: By permission of Oxford University Press