Meet and right it is to sing
Meet and right it is to sing. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), Volume II, in four 8-line stanzas, among nineteen ‘Hymns for the Watch-Night’:
Meet and right it is to sing At every Time and Place,Glory to our Heavenly King, The God of Truth and Grace:Join we then with sweet accord, All in one Thanksgiving join,Holy, holy, holy Lord, Eternal Ptaise be Thine!
Thee the first-born Sons of Light In choral SymphoniesPraise by Day, Day without Night, And never, never cease:Angels, and Archangels all Sing the Mystic Three in One,Sing, and stop, and gaze, and fall O’erwhelm’d before Thy Throne.
Vyeing with that happy Quire Who chaunt thy Praise...
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