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Text:As Pants the Hart
Author:Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
Author:Nicholas Brady (1659-1726)
Tune:MARTYRDOM
Adapter:Robert A. Smith (1780-1829)
Composer:Hugh Wilson

113. As Pants the Hart

1 As pants the hart for cooling streams
When heated in the chase,
So longs my soul, O God, for Thee,
And Thy refreshing grace..

2 For Thee, my God, the living God,
My thirsty soul doth pine
O when shall I behold Thy face,
Thou Majesty divine?

3 Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Hope still, and thou shalt sing
The praise of Him who is thy God,
Thy health's eternal spring.

4 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
The God whom we adore,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall be evermore.

Text Information
First Line: As pants the hart for cooling streams
Title: As Pants the Hart
Author: Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
Author: Nicholas Brady (1659-1726)
Meter: C.M.
Publication Date: 1985
Scripture:
Topic: God the Father: Grace and Mercy of God
Source: in the New Version, 1696
Tune Information
Name: MARTYRDOM
Composer: Hugh Wilson
Adapter: Robert A. Smith (1780-1829) (1825)
Incipit: 51651 23213 53132
Key: G Major or modal



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