Glad was my heart to hear
Glad was my heart to hear. James Montgomery* (1771-1854).
First published in Montgomery’s Songs of Zion (1822) in six 4-line stanzas. It is based on Psalm 122 (‘I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord’). It is characteristic of Montgomery in its economy and simplicity, as in stanzas 1-3:
Glad was my heart to hear My old companions say:Come, in the house of God appear, For ’tis a holy day.
Our willing feet shall stand Within the temple door,While young and old, in many a band, Shall throng the sacred floor
Thither the tribes repair, Where all are wont to meet,And joyful in the house of prayer Bend at the mercy-seat.
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