How Blest The Shining Forms Above

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How blest the shining forms above

Author: Benjamin Beddome
Tune: MARTYRDOM (Wilson)
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How blest the shining forms above,
Who dwell so near their God;
They ever taste His richest love,
Nor fear His lifted rod.

Thus freed from every toil and care,
Fain would we leave our clay;
Some friendly seraph, come and bear
Our lingering souls away.

When shall we reach the blissful shore?
Lord, call Thy prisoners home;
Our hearts and joys are gone before,
Come death, and Jesus, come.

But why impatient of delay,
So eager to be gone?
If God commands a longer stay,
His sovereign will be done.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16284

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Author: Benjamin Beddome

Benjamin Beddome was born at Henley-in Arden, Warwickshire, January 23, 1717. His father was a Baptist minister. He studied at various places, and began preaching in 1740. He was pastor of a Baptist society at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, until his death in 1795. In 1770, he received the degree of M.A. from the Baptist College in Providence, Rhode Island. He published several discourses and hymns. "His hymns, to the number of 830, were published in 1818, with a recommendation from Robert Hall." Montgomery speaks of him as a "writer worthy of honour both for the quantity and the quality of his hymns." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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First Line:	How blest the shining forms above
Title:	How Blest The Shining Forms Above
Author:	Benjamin Beddome
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Source:	Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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MARTYRDOM (Wilson)

MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b. Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, c. 1766; d. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. A triple-meter version of the tune was fir…

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