Historic Sheet Music Collection

Authors

Oliver Shaw

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1834

Comments

To Jesus the Crown of my Hope:

A Sacred Song

As Sung at the Oratorios

Composed by Oliver Shaw.

Providence: Published by the Author 70 Westminster Street.

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Lyrics

[Refrain] To Jesus the Crown of my Hope, My Soul is in haste to be Gone, My Soul is in haste in haste to be Gone, [Verse 1] Oh bear me ye Cherubim up, And waft me away to his throne; And waft me away away to his throne waft me away to his throne. [Refrain] [Verse 2] My Saviour whom absent I love, Whom not having seen I adore, Whose name is exalted above All glory dominion and power. [Verse 3] Dissolve thou the bands that detain My soul from her portion in thee, Oh strike off the adamant chain, And make me eternally free. [Verse 4] Then that happy era begins, When arrayed in they glory I shine And no longer pain with my sins, The bosom on which I recline.

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