395. Lift up your hearts!

1 'Lift up your hearts!' We lift them, Lord, to thee;
here at thy feet none other may we see:
'Lift up your hearts!' E'en so, with one accord,
we lift them up, we lift them to the Lord.

2 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 ev'ry Christian soul.

3 Lift ev'ry gift that thou thyself hast giv'n:
low lies the best till lifted up to heav'n;
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, Lord to thee
Title: Lift up your hearts!
Author: Henry Montagu Butler, 1833-1918 (alt.)
Meter: 10 10 10 10
Language: English
Publication Date: 2000
Topic: Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Offertory Hymn; Year B: Proper 8
Tune Information
Name: WOODLANDS
Composer: Walter Greatorex, 1877-1949
Meter: 10 10 10 10
Key: D Major
Copyright: © Oxford University Press. Used by permission from "Enlarged Songs of Praise"



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