Part II

When strangers stand and hear me tell

Buckfield · L. M.

p. 60
Tune Buckfield.
Key C major
Singing key F major
Time 2/2
5 stanzas

Words

When strangers stand and hear me tell,What beauties in my Savior dwell ;Where he is gone they fain would know,That they may seek and love him too ;

O may my spirit daily riseOn wings of faith above the skies,Till I shall make my last remove,To dwell forever with my love.

In paradise within the gates,An higher entertainment waits;Fruits new and old, laid up in store,There we shall feed—but want no more.

Religion bears our spirits up,While we expect that blessed hope,The bright appearance of the Lord,And faith stands leaning on his word.

Come, my beloved, haste away,Cut short the hours of thy delay;Fly, like a youthful hart or roe,Over the hills where spices grow.

About this hymn

As printed Millennial Harp (1843), Part II, printed pp. 60–61 (PDF 136–137). Three staves (Treble, Second Treble, Bass), C major, 2/2, 19 measures in five systems. It is a **fuguing tune**: after the first four measures, sung together, the voices enter one after the other (Bass, then Second Treble, then Treble) and each staff carries its own line of words under it. The hymnal prints the first stanza between the staves and stanzas 2–5 as verse below the music on p. 61.