Category: Woodlands

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• Tune: Woodlands
• Style: 20th Century
• Composer: Walter Greatorex (1877 – 1949)
• Lyricist: William Henry Ralph Reader (1903 – 1982)
• Church Year: General, Communion
• Music Copyright Public Domain
• Lyrics Copyright William Henry Ralph Reader
• Performances Copyright ℗ 2019 Richard M S Irwin. Certain rights reserved.

Hymn – Lift up your hearts – Lyrics

“Lift up your hearts!” We lift them, Lord, to Thee;
Here at Thy feet none other may we see;
“Lift up your hearts!” E’en so, with one accord,
We lift them up, we lift them to the Lord.

Above the swamps of subterfuge and shame,
The deeds, the thoughts, that honor may not name,
The halting tongue that dares not tell the whole,
O Lord of Truth, lift every Christian soul!

Lift every gift that Thou Thyself hast given;
Low lies the best till lifted up to heaven;
Low lie the bounding heart, the teeming brain,
Till, sent from God, they mount to God again.

Then, as the trumpet call, in after years,
“Lift up your hearts!” rings pealing in our ears,
Still shall those hearts respond, with full accord
“We lift them up, we lift them to the Lord!”

Recording

Details

• Tune: Woodlands
• Style: 20th Century
• Composer: Walter Greatorex (1877 – 1949)
• Lyricist: Henry Montague Butler (1833 – 1919)
• Church Year: General, Communion
• Music Copyright Public Domain
• Lyrics Copyright Public Domain
• Performances Copyright ℗ 2016 Richard M S Irwin. Certain rights reserved.