I Love Thy Zion, Lord

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I love Thy Zion, Lord

Author: Timothy Dwight
Tune: ST. THOMAS (Williams)
Published in 75 hymnals

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1 I love Thy Zion, Lord,
The house of Thine abode;
The Church our blest Redeemer saved
With His own precious blood.

2 I love Thy Church, O God;
Her walls before Thee stand,
Dear as the apple of Thine eye,
And graven on Thy hand.

3 For her my tears shall fall;
For her my prayers ascend:
To her my cares and toil be given
Till toils and cares shall end.

4 Beyond my highest joy
I prize her heavenly ways,
Her sweet communion, solemn vows,
Her hymns of love and praise.

5 Jesus, Thou Friend divine,
Our Saviour and our King,
Thy hand from every snare and foe
Shall great deliverance bring.

6 Sure as Thy truth shall last,
To Zion shall be given
The brightest glories earth can yield,
And brighter bliss of heaven.

Amen.

Source: The Hymnal and Order of Service #261

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Author: Timothy Dwight

Timothy Dwight (b. Northampton, MA, 1752; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1817) was a grandson of Jonathan Edwards who became a Congregationalist pastor, a Revolutionary War army chaplain, a tutor and professor at Yale College, and president of Yale from 1795 to 1817. As president he continued to teach and serve as chaplain and was instrumental in improving both the academic and the spiritual life of the college. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

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First Line:	I love Thy Zion, Lord
Title:	I Love Thy Zion, Lord
Author:	Timothy Dwight
Meter:	6.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 137
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Notes

I love Thy Zion, Lord. This is an altered form of T. Dwight's "I love Thy kingdom, Lord," p. 317, i. 2.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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Tune

ST. THOMAS (Williams)

ST. THOMAS is actually lines 5 through 8 of the sixteen-line tune HOLBORN, composed by Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) and published in his Collection (1763, 1765) as a setting for Charles Wesley's text "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (570). The harmonization is by Lowell Maso…

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DONCASTER (Wesley)

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