Worship — Adoration of Christ

Beyond the starry skies

No. 126
Words Daniel Turner.
Singing key B♭ major
3 stanzas

Sung to VERDI (hymn 899)

Words

Beyond the starry skies,Far as the eternal hills,There in the boundless world of lightOur great Redeemer dwells.Around him angels fairIn countless armies shine;And ever, in exalted lays,They offer songs divine.

"Hail, Prince of life!" they cry,"Whose unexampled loveMoved thee to quit these glorious realmsAnd royalties above."And when he stooped to earth,And suffered rude disdain,They cast their honors at his feet,And waited in his train.

They saw him on the cross,While darkness vailed the skies;And when he burst the gates of death,They saw the Conqueror rise.They thronged his chariot wheels,And bore him to his throne;Then swept their golden harps and sung,"That glorious work is done."

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «126», reference line «899, 817.» in italics (sing to the tune of hymn 899 or 817); the whole hymn stands in the right column of p. 46, below the music of hymn 125, and ends there with «Daniel Turner.» in italics. The first word «BEYOND» is set in capitals and small capitals. In stanza 2, line 3 («Moved thee to quit») and stanza 3, line 6 («And bore him to his throne») the word «to» is printed in italic type, kept here as to. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» («shine ;», «life !», «skies ;», «throne ;»); it is closed up here. Typographic quotation marks are written straight. Spelling («honors», «vailed»), punctuation and capitals are the print's. No meter is printed (the text is S. M. D., 6.6.8.6.D). Lines 2, 4, 6 and 8 of each stanza are indented in the print.