The Lord ascendeth up on high
The Lord ascendeth up on high. Arthur Tozer Russell* (1806-1874).
First published in Russell’s Hymns for Public Worship and Private Devotion (1848), a book published for the benefit of the London German Hospital at Dalston, London. It had four 6-line stanzas. This text appears in the Oxford Hymn Book (1908), RCH and HP, with the omission of stanza 4:
Draw all our hearts, O Lord, to thee;
Our minds from every burden free
Of earthly care and pleasure:
And when our mortal days shall end,
O may our souls to thee ascend,
Our everlasting treasure.
An alternative text is one which first appeared in Psalms and Hymns (1854), edited by T.B. Morell and William Walsham How*, and repeated in the...
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