Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church ‎#257

257. As pants the hart for cooling streams

1 As pants the hart for cooling streams
When heated in the chase,
So longs my soul, O God, for Thee,
And Thy refreshing grace.

2 For Thee, my God, the living God,
My thirsty soul doth pine;
O when shall I behold Thy face,
Thou majesty Divine!

3 Why restless, why cast down, my soul?
Hope still; and thou shalt sing
The praise of Him Who is thy God,
Thy health’s eternal Spring.

4 To Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
The God Whom we adore,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall be evermore.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: As pants the hart for cooling streams
• Author: Nahum Tate (1696)
• Author: Nicholas Brady (1696)
• Meter: C. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1917
• Notes: Now Public Domain.

Tune Information

• Name: MARTYRDOM
• Composer: Hugh Wilson, (1766-1824)
• Meter: C. M.
• Key: A♭ Major
• Source: Present form c. 1825
• Notes: Now Public Domain.