Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal ‎#452

452. What Heavenly Music

1 What heavenly music steals over the sea!
Entrancing the senses like sweet melody!
‘Tis the voice of the angels borne soft on the air;
For me they are singing; their welcome I hear.

2 On the banks of old Jordan, here gazing I stand,
And earnestly longing, I stretch forth my hand;
Send a convoy of angels, dear Jesus, I pray!
Let me join that sweet music; come, take me away.

3 Though dark are the waters and rough is the wave,
If Jesus permit, the wild surges I’ll brave;
For that heavenly music hath ravished me so,
I must join in that chorus! I’ll go! let me go!

Text Information

• First Line: What heavenly music steals over the sea!
• Title: What Heavenly Music
• Meter: 11.11.12.11.
• Publication Date: 1985
• Topic: Early Advent
• Source: James White's Hymns for God's Peculiar People . . . , 1849

Tune Information

• Name: HEAVENLY MUSIC
• Meter: 11.11.12.11.
• Incipit: 12334 33223 21271
• Key: F Major or modal
• Source: From Hymns and Tunes, 1886