1 Fair mount where Jesus knelt and prayed,
What splendor crowned thy holy crest
When to His followers He revealed
The Godhead they by faith confessed!
2 Bright as the sun His face they saw,
White as the light His garments gleamed;
Transfigured He transfigured all
The place whereon His radiance streamed.
3 With earth so far, and Heav’n so near
What wonder they were fain to stay;
And Moses and Elias came
By that great vision rapt as they!
4 What wonder, while with them He spake
And overhead the cloud appeared
And from its glory came the voice,
That they who heard it greatly feared!
5 The glory waned, the saints of old
Departed by the ways unknown.
And looking up, the prostrate three
Beheld their blessèd Lord alone.
6 No more that vision may return,
The cloud appear, the voice be heard;
But by that one transcendent scene
The heart of faith is ever stirred.
7 And though we see Thee not, O Lord,
Thy presence faithful souls perceive,
And blessèd they, as Thou hast said.
Who have not seen and yet believe.
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15151
Kimball, Harriet McEwan, a native and resident of Portsmouth, Newhaven, is the author of Hymns, Boston, 1866; Swallow Flights of Song, 1874, &c. Her hymns include:—
1. At times on Tabor's height. Faith and Joy
2. Dear Lord, to Thee alone. Lent.
3. It is an easy thing to say. Humble Service.
4. We have no tears Thou wilt not dry. Affliction. Appeared in the Poets of Portsmouth, 1864, and the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, and others. In Miss Kimball's Hymns, 1866, this hymn begins with stanza iii. of "Jesus the Ladder of my faith."
Several of Miss Kimball's poems were included in Baynes's Illustrated Book of Sacred Poems, 1867. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
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