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| Co-operative Music Co. Philadelphia, 1911. | Sacred Heart Hymns |
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| 1) Thou for whom I’ve long been sighing; Jesus now at length Thou’rt mine, In Thy sweet embraces lying, Press, O press my heart to Thine. Ah! what bliss this life completing, Senses soul on You hath come, Leap exultant to His greeting, Bid Him welcome to your home. |
3) When the rising sunlight blesses, When the ev’ning bids farewell, May my soul Thy sweet caresses, My good Jesus ever feel. Let not death nor life asunder, Rend the bond that makes me Thine, Ah, how blissful is the wonder, That uplifts to life divine. |
| 2) Happy morning sweet the hour_ That on which Thou cam’st to me, Beauteous too that glorious power, Where I bask in light from Thee. Who possesses Thee possesses, More than all this world bestows, E’en the joys in heav’n that blesses, To Thy Heart its fountain owes. |
4) Life itself shall bear me ever, Chanting all Thy mercies praise, And when death shall come to sever, This earth’s bond it too shall raise. Songs triumphant ’till disclosing, All Thy beauty face to face, ‘Mid Thy angels bright reposing, Then transform me by Thy grace. |