Desire to see Jesus

From every earthly pleasure

p. 12
Key D minor
Singing key B minor
Time 4/4
3 stanzas

Words

From every earthly pleasure,From every transient joy,From every mortal treasure,That soon will fade and die;No longer these desiring,Upwards our wishes tend,To nobler bliss aspiring,And joys that never end.

From every piercing sorrow,That leaves our breast to-dayOr threatens us to-morrow,Hope turns our eyes away,On wings of faith ascending,We see the land of light,And feel our sorrows ending,In infinite delight.

'Tis true, we are but strangers,We sojourn here below;And countless snares and dangersSurround the path we go;Though painful and distressing,Yet there's a rest above;And onward still we're pressing,To reach that land of love.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: stanza 1 is set under the treble staff, one line of text per system (line 1 in whole words without hyphens, lines 2–4 hyphenated as sung); stanza 2 is printed in prose at the foot of p. 12 and stanza 3 in prose at the head of p. 13 (PDF 17). No meter, author or composer is printed. The key signature is one flat; the tune begins on F/A over D, ends on D over D and raises C to C♯ at the cadences, so it is in D minor.