[Music]
Bright scenes of glory strike my sense,
And all my passions capture;
Eternal beauties round me shine,
Infusing warmest rapture.
I live in pleasures deep and full,
In swelling waves of glory.
I feel my Savior in my soul
And groan to tell the story.
Further stanzas are given under 'Mecklinburg'. The tune was borrowed
from 'When the Wild War's Deadly Blast', SMM, No. 131. See also for
melodic similarities 'The Mill Mill O', SMM, No. 157; and 'Blue-Eyed
Stranger', Sharp, _The Morris Book_, Part I, p. 91. See Greig-Keith,
_Last Leaves_, p. 181, for the tune's wide use in the British Isles
during the eighteenth century.
No. 68
CHRISTIAN SOLDIER, GOS 207