I rise from dreams of time

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I rise from dreams of time

Author: R. Monteith
Tune: [I rise from dreams of time]
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 I rise from dreams of time,
From the shadows of this life,
From the tombs and places waste,
From an earth of sin and strife;
I rise from dreams of time,
An angel guides my feet, my feet
To thy sacred altar-throne,
Whereon my heart doth beat,
To thy sacred altar-throne,
Whereon my heart doth beat.

2 A lone lamp quivers still,
And a wondrous silence reigns;
Only with voice low and mild,
The Holy One complains:
"Long have I waited here,
And tho' thou heed'st not me, not me,
The heart of Mary's Son
Beats ever on for thee,
The heart of Mary's Son
Beats ever on for thee."

3 In the womb of Maiden meek,
In the Cradle, on the Tree,
Heart of undying love,
It lived, loved, broke for me:
While around me thunders peal,
Yet, as then, behold me now,
By Thy pierced and wounded Hands
By Thy torn and bleeding Brow.

4 O voice of the inward ear!
O voice of complaining love!
O Thou art awful God,
To realms below and above!
Thou waitest and pleadest here,
And canst not from us part,
O veiled and wondrous Son!
O love of the Sacred Heart!

Source: Laudis Corona: the new Sunday school hymn book, containing a collection of Catholic hymns, arranged for the principal seasons and festivals of the year #139

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Author: R. Monteith

Monteith, Robert, M.A., son of Henry Monteith, M.P., of Curstairs House, Lanark, was b. in 1812, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837). He succeeded his father in 1848, and d. March 31, 1884, at Carstairs. His hymn, I arise from dreams of time [thee]. (Sacred Heart of Jesus), appeared in the Rambler, Sept. 1850, p. 237, entitled "The Sacred Heart. Lines presented to a Lady as a substitute for Shelley's Lines to an Indian air. R. M." (Shelley's “Indian Serenade," written in 1819, begins "I arise from dreams of thee"). It is repeated in the St. Andrew's Catholic Hymn Book, 1863, and others. In the Crown of Jesus Hymn Book, 1862, it begins "I rise." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (19… Go to person page >

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