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The eternal gates lift up their heads

Author: Mrs. C. F. Alexander Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 132 hymnals First Line: Th'eternal gates lift up their heads Lyrics: 1 Th'eternal gates lift up their heads, The doors are opened wide; The King of glory is gone up Unto His Father's side. 2 Thou art gone up before us, Lord, Thou hast prepared a place, That we may be where now Thou art, And look upon Thy face. 3 And ever on Thine earthly path A gleam of glory lies; A light still breaks behind the clouds That veil Thee from our eyes. 4 Lift up our thoughts, lift up our songs, And let Thy grace be given, That while we linger yet below, Our hearts may be in heaven; 5 That where Thou art at God's right hand, Our hope, our love may be: Dwell in us now, that we may dwell For evermore with Thee. Amen. Topics: Ascensiontide Used With Tune: [Th'eternal gates lift up their heads]

Our Father! while our hearts unlearn

Author: O. W. Holmes Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: The Eternal God Used With Tune: ST. FRANCES

I long for household voices gone

Author: J. G. Whittier Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: The Eternal World Used With Tune: ST. FRANCES

My heart not haughty is, O Lord

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals Lyrics: 1 My heart not haughty is, O Lord, mine eyes not lofty be; nor do I deal in matters great, or things too high for me. 2 I surely have myself behaved with quiet spirit and mild, as child of mother weaned: my soul is like a weaned child. 3 Upon the Lord let all the hope of Israel placed be, even from the time that present is unto eternity. Scripture: Psalm 131 Used With Tune: ST FRANCES

Long Have I Seemed to Serve Thee, Lord

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 69 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Long have I seemed to serve Thee, Lord, With unavailing pain: I fasted, prayed, and read Thy Word, And heard it preached in vain. 2. Oft did I with th’assembly join, And near Thine altar drew; A form of godliness was mine, The power I never knew. 3. I rested in the outward law; Nor knew its deep design: The length and breadth I never saw, The height of love divine. 4. To please Thee thus, at length I see, I vainly hoped and strove: For what are outward things to Thee, Unless they spring from love? 5. I see the perfect law requires Truth in the inward parts: Our full consent, our whole desires, Our undivided hearts. 6. But I of means have made my boast, Of means an idol made; The spirit in the letter lost, The substance in the shade. 7. Where am I now, or what my hope? What can my weakness do? Jesus! to Thee my soul looks up: ’Tis Thou must make it new. Used With Tune: ST. FRANCES Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740, alt.

I mourn no more my vanished years

Author: John G. Whittier Appears in 6 hymnals Used With Tune: ST. FRANCES

O how I love thy law! it is

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: MEM THE THIRTEENTH PART 97 O how love I thy law! it is my study all the day: 98 it makes me wiser than my foes; for it doth with me stay. 99 Than all my teachers now I have more understanding far; because my meditation still thy testimonies are. 100 In understanding I excel even those that aged be; because thy precepts to observe I have sought earnestly. 101 My feet from each ill way I stayed, that I may keep thy word. 102 I from thy judgments have not swerved; for thou hast taught me, Lord. 103 How sweet unto my taste, O Lord, are all thy words of truth! Yea, I do find them sweeter far than honey to my mouth. 104 I through thy precepts, that are pure, do understanding get; I therefore every way that’s false with all my heart do hate. Scripture: Psalm 119:97-104 Used With Tune: ST FRANCES

As pants the hart for water-brooks

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 4 hymnals Lyrics: 1 As pants the hart for water-brooks, my soul pants, Lord, for thee; 2 for God, the living God, I thirst; God's courts when shall I see? 3 My tears have unto me been meat both in the night and day, While unto me continually, Where is thy God? they say. 4 My soul is poured out in me, when this I think upon; because that with the multitude I heretofore had gone; with them into God’s house I went, with voice of joy and praise; yea, with the multitude that kept the solemn holy days. 5 O why art thou cast down, my soul? why in me so dismayed? Trust God, for I shall praise him yet; his countenance is mine aid. 6 My God, my soul’s cast down in me: remember thee I will from Jordan’s land, and Hermon's heights, even from Mizar hill. 7 At voice of thy great water-spouts deep unto deep doth call; thy breaking waves pass over me, yea, and thy billows all. 8 His loving-kindness yet the Lord command will in the day; his song is with me in the night; to God, my life, I’ll pray. 9 I'll say to God my rock, O why dost thou forget me so? For the oppression of my foes why do I mourning go? 10 ’Tis as a sword within my bones, when me my foes me upbraid; even when by them, Where is thy God? is daily to me said. 11 O why art thou cast down, my soul? Why thus with grief opprest art thou disquieted in me? In God still hope and rest: for yet I know I shall him praise, who graciously to me the health is of my countenance, yea, mine own God is he. Scripture: Psalm 42 Used With Tune: ST FRANCES

I would commune with Thee, my God

Author: George Burden Bubier, 1823-69 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Love and Communion Used With Tune: ST. FRANCES

For evil doers fret thou not

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 17 hymnals Lyrics: 1 For evil-doers fret thou not thyself unquietly; nor do thou envy bear to those that work iniquity. 2 For, even like unto the grass, soon be cut down shall they; and, like the green and tender herb they wither shall away. 3 Set thou thy trust upon the Lord, and be thou doing good; and so thou in the land shalt dwell, and verily have food. 4 Delight thyself in God; he’ll give thine heart’s desire to thee. 5 Thy way to God commit, him trust, it bring to pass shall he. 6 And, like unto the light, he shall thy righteousness display; and he thy judgment shall bring forth, like noon-tide of the day. 7 rest in the Lord, and patiently wait for him: do not fret for him who, prospering in his way, success in sin doth get. 8 Let anger cease within thy heart, and wrath forsake, thou too: fret not thyself in any wise, that evil thou should’st do. 9 For those that evil-doers are shall be cut off and fall: but those that wait upon the Lord the earth inherit shall. 10 For yet a little while, and then the wicked shall not be; his place thou shalt consider well, but it thou shalt not see. 11 But by inheritance the earth the meek ones shall possess: they also shall delight themselves in an abundant peace. 12 The wicked gnashes with his teeth, and plots the just to slay; 13 the Lord shall laugh at him, because at hand he sees his day. 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and bent their bow, to slay the poor and needy, and to kill men of an upright way. 15 But their own sword, which they have drawn, shall enter their own heart; their bows which they have bent shall break, and into pieces part. 16 A little that a just man hath is more and better far than is the wealth of many such as vile and wicked are. 17 For sinners’ arms shall broken be; the Lord the just sustains. 18 The Lord doth know the just man’s ways; their heritage remains. 19 They shall not be ashamed when they the evil time do see; and when the days of famine are they satisfied shall be. 20 But wicked men, Jehovah's foes, as fat of lambs, decay; they shall consume, yea, into smoke they shall consume away. 21 The wicked borrows, but the same again he doth not pay: whereas the righteous mercy shows, and gives his own away. 22 For such as blessed be of him the earth inherit shall; and they that cursed are of him shall be destroyed all. 23 A good man’s footsteps by the Lord are ordered aright; and in the way wherein he walks he greatly doth delight. 24 Although he fall, yet shall he not be cast down utterly; because the Lord with his own hand upholds him mightily. 25 I have been young, and now am old, yet have I never seen the just man left, nor that his seed for bread have beggars been. 26 He’s ever merciful, and lends: his seed is blest therefore. 27 Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell for evermore. 28 For God loves judgment, and his saints leaves not in any case; they are kept ever: but cut off shall be the sinner’s race. 29 The just inherit shall the land, and ever in it dwell. 30 The just man’s mouth doth wisdom speak; his tongue doth judgment tell. 31 His God's law is within his heart; his steps slide not away. 32 The wicked man doth watch the just, and seeketh him to slay. 33 Yet him the Lord will not forsake, nor leave him in his hands: the righteous will he not condemn, when he in judgment stands. 34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and thee exalt shall he earth to inherit; when cut off the wicked thou shalt see. 35 I saw the wicked great in power spread like a green bay-tree: 36 he passed, yea, was not: him I sought, but found he could not be. 37 Mark thou the perfect, and behold the man of uprightness; because that surely of this man the latter end is peace. 38 But those men that transgressors are shall be destroyed together; the latter end of wicked men shall be cut off for ever. 39 But the salvation of the just is from the Lord above; he in the time of their distress their stay and strength doth prove. 40 The Lord shall help and rescue them; he shall them free and save from wicked men; because in him their confidence they have. Scripture: Psalm 37 Used With Tune: ST FRANCES