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Text:'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them to the Lord
Author:H. M. Butler (1833-1918)
Tune:WOODLANDS
Composer:W. Greatorex (1877-1949)

366a. '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 Above the swamps of subterfuge and shame,
the deeds, the thoughts, that honour may not name,
the halting tongue that dares not tell the whole —
O Lord of truth, lift every Christian soul!

4 Above the storms that darken human life —
pride, jealousy and envy, rage and strife;
where cold mistrust holds friend and friend apart —
O Lord of love, lift every Christian heart!

5 Then, with the trumpet call as Christ appears,
'Lift up your hearts!' rings, pealing in our ears:
still shall our 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: H. M. Butler (1833-1918)
Meter: 10 10 10 10
Language: English
Publication Date: 1987
Topic: Christ the Friend of Sinners; God's Church: Penitence and Prayer; Lent 1, The King and the Kingdom: Temptation (2 more...)
Tune Information
Name: WOODLANDS
Composer: W. Greatorex (1877-1949)
Meter: 10 10 10 10
Key: D Major
Copyright: © Oxford University Press
Notes: Alternative tune: YANWORTH (366b)



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