O for a glance of heavenly day
O for a glance of heavenly day. Joseph Hart* (1712-1768).
From the Second Edition, with Supplement of Hart’s Hymns, &c. composed on Various Subjects, by J. Hart (1762) (JJ, p. 493). We have used the Third Edition (1763). It was entitled ‘The stony Heart’. It had five stanzas:
Oh! for a Glance of heav’nly Day To take this stubborn Stone away,And thaw with Beams of Love divineThis Heart, this frozen Heart of mine.
The Rocks can rent; the Earth can quake;The Seas can roar; the Mountains shake;Of Feeling all Things shew some Sign;But this unfeeling Heart of mine.
To hear the Sorrows thou hast felt, Dear Lord, an Adamant would melt: But I can read each moving Line, And nothing move...
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