Worship — Opening Hymns

How pleasant, how divinely fair

No. 3
Metre L. M.
Tune Burton
Words Isaac Watts.
Music Isaac B. Woodbury.
Key C major
Singing key B♭ major
Time 2/2
5 stanzas

Words

How pleasant, how divinely fair,O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are!With long desire my spirit faintsTo meet th' assemblies of thy saints.

I long to rest in thine abode,My panting heart cries out for God;My God, my King, why should I beSo far from all my joys and thee?

Blest are the souls that find a placeWithin the temple of thy grace;There they behold thy gentle rays,And seek thy face and learn thy praise.

Blest are the men whose hearts are setTo find the way to Zion's gate:God is their strength; and through the roadThey lean upon their helper, God.

Cheerful they walk, with growing strength,Till all shall meet in heaven at length;Till all before thy face appear,And join in nobler worship there.

About this hymn

As printed Header as printed: «3 BURTON. L. M. Isaac B. Woodbury.» Stanza 1 is set between the staves (numbered «1.»); stanzas 2–5 follow as text in the left column below the music, under the cross-reference line «136, 101, 104.» (= the same words may be sung to the tunes of hymns 136, 101 or 104), and end with «Isaac Watts.» in italics. The period's thin space before «;», «?» and «:» is not reproduced (parent normalisation, same convention as the other hymnals).