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BLEST be the tie that binds

Brotherly Love.

Poet: John Fawcett, 1782
Meter: Short Meter (6,6,8,6)
Location in The Sacred Harp
Stanza Denson Cooper
1
BLEST be the tie that binds
Our hearts in christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

The Christian's Love 95b, Stanza 1
2
Before our Father's throne
We pour our ardent pray'rs;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.

The Christian's Love 95b, Stanza 2
3
We share our mutual woes;
Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.

4
When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be join'd in heart,
And hope to meet again.

The Christian's Love 95b, Stanza 3
5
This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.

6
From sorrow, toil and pain,
And sin we shall be free;
And perfect love and friendship reign
Thro' all eternity.

Fawcett, John. Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of Public Worship, and Private Devotion. By John Fawcett. Leeds: Printed by G. Wright and Son, for the author, 1782.