Rise, My Soul, And Stretch Thy Wings
- Words:
- Robert Seagrave
- Music:
- James Nares
Sheet music
- 1Rise my soul, and stretch thy wings,Thy better portion trace;Rise from transitory things,Toward heav’n, thy destined place:Sun and moon and stars decay,Time shall soon this earth remove;Rise, my soul, and haste awayTo seats prepared above.
- 2Rivers to the ocean run,Nor stay in all their course;Fire, ascending, seeks the sun,Both speed them to their source:So a soul, that’s born of God,Pants to view His glorious face,Upward tends to His abode,To rest in His embrace.
- 3Cease, my soul, oh, cease to mourn!Press onward to the prize;Soon thy Savior will return,To take thee to the skies:There is everlasting peace,Rest, enduring rest, in heav’n;There will sorrow ever cease,And crowns of joy be given.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1742, the words are in 818 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are 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.