| Location in The Sacred Harp | ||||||
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| Stanza | Denson | Cooper | ||||
| 1 |
How tedious and tasteless the hours, When Jesus no longer I see; Sweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flow'rs, Have lost all their sweetness to me; The midsummer-sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in him, December's as pleasant as May. |
Edgefield 82b (Lines 1, 2, 3, & 4), Stanza 1 Green Fields 127, Stanza 1 |
Green Fields 127, Stanza 1 |
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| 2 |
His name yields the richest perfume, And sweeter than music his voice; His presence disperses my gloom, And makes all within me rejoice: I should, were He always so nigh, Have nothing to wish or to fear; No mortal so happy as I, My summer would last all the year. |
Edgefield 82b (Lines 1, 2, 3, & 4), Stanza 2 Green Fields 127, Stanza 2 |
Green Fields 127, Stanza 2 |
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| 3 |
Content with beholding his face, My all to his pleasures resign'd; No changes of season or place, Would make any change in my mind: While bless'd with a sense of his love, A palace a toy would appear; And prisons would palaces prove, If Jesus would dwell with me there. |
Green Fields 127, Stanza 3 |
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| 4 |
Dear Lord, if indeed I am thine, If thou art my sun and my song; Say, why do I languish and pine, And why are my winters so long? O drive these dark clouds from my sky, Thy soul-cheering presence restore, Or take me unto thee up on high, Where winter and clouds are no more. |
Green Fields 127, Stanza 4 |
Green Fields 127, Stanza 3 |
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