Heaven
Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken
- Words:
- John Newton, 1779, alt.
- Music:
- 'Austria (Haydn)' or 'Austrian Hymn' Franz Joseph Haydn, 1797.
- Setting:
- "The Evangelical Hymnal with Tunes", 1880.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7
- 1Glorious things of thee are spoken,Zion city of our God;He, Whose Word cannot be brokenFormed thee for His Own abode:On the Rock of Ages founded,What can shake thy sure repose?With salvation's walls surrounded,Thou mayst smile at all thy foes.
- 2See, the streams of living waters,Springing from Eternal Love,Well supply thy sons and daughters,And all fear of want remove:Who can faint, while such a riverEver will their thirst assuage?Grace, which, like the Lord the Giver,Never fails from age to age.
- 3Round each habitation hov'ring,See the cloud and fire appear,For a glory and a cov'ring:Showing that the Lord is near.Thus deriving from their bannerLight by night, and shade by day,Safe they feed upon the manna,Which He gives them on their way.
- 4Savior, if of Zion's cityI, through grace, a member am,Let the world deride or pity,I will glory in Thy Name:Fading is the worldling's pleasure,All his boasted pomp and show:Solid joys and lasting treasureNone but Zion's children know.
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- Written in 1779, the words are in 1,400 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.