Transfiguration
Tis Good, Lord, To Be Here
- Words:
- Joseph Armitage Robinson, 1888.
- Music:
- 'Potsdam' adapted from Johann Sebastian Bach, 1750, by John Goss, 1854.
- Setting:
- John Goss, 1854.
- Metre:
- 6 6 8 6
- 1'Tis good, Lord, to be here,Thy glory fills the night;Thy face and garments, like the sun,Shine with unborrowed light.
- 2'Tis good, Lord, to be here,Thy beauty to beholdWhere Moses and Elijah stand,Thy messengers of old.
- 3Fulfiller of the past,Promise of things to be,We hail Thy body glorifiedAnd our redemption see.
- 4Before we taste of death,We see Thy Kingdom come;We fain would hold the vision brightAnd make this hill our home.
- 5'Tis good, Lord, to be here.Yet we may not remain;But since Thou bidst us leave the mount,Come with us to the plain.
Scripture
Topics
In the hymnals
- The words are in 53 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Potsdam, is in 84 hymnals. The tune →
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. 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.