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Come let us join our cheerful Songs

CHRIST JESUS the Lamb of GOD, worshipped by all Creation, Rev. v. 11--13.

Poet: Isaac Watts, 1707
Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)
Location in The Sacred Harp
Stanza Denson Cooper
1
Come let us join our cheerful Songs
With Angels round the Throne;
Ten thousand thousand are their Tongues,
But all their Joys are one.

Rochester 30t, Stanza 1
2
"Worthy the Lamb that dy'd," they cry,
"To be exalted thus:"
"Worthy the Lamb," our Lips reply,
For he was slain for us.

3
Jesus is worthy to receive
Honour and Pow'r Divine;
And Blessings more than we can give,
Be, LORD, for ever thine.

4
Let all that dwell above the Sky,
And Air, and Earth, and Seas,
Conspire to lift thy Glories high,
And speak thine endless Praise.

5
The whole Creation join in one,
To bless the sacred Name
Of Him that sits upon the Throne,
And to adore the Lamb.

Rochester 30t, Stanza 2
Watts, Isaac. Hymns and Spiritual Songs: In Three Books. 1773 ed. London: S. Strahan et. al., 1773.