Lo, what a pleasing [pleasant] sight

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Lo, what a pleasing [pleasant] sight

Author: Isaac Watts
Published in 45 hymnals

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1 Lo, what a pleasing sight
Are brethren that agree!
How blest are all whose hearts unite
In bonds of piety!

2 From those celestial springs,
Such streams of comfort flow,
As no increase of riches brings,
Nor honors can bestow.

3 All in their stations move,
And each performs his part,
In all the cares of life and love,
With sympathizing heart.

4 Formed for the purest joys,
By one desire possesed,
One aim the zeal of all employs,
To make each other blest.

5 No bliss can equal theirs,
Where such affections meet;
While praise devout, and mingled pray'rs,
Make their communion sweet.

6 'Tis the same pleasure fills
The breast in worlds above,
Where joy like morning dew distils,
And all the air is love.

Source: Evangelical Lutheran hymnal: with music #392

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Author: Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts was the son of a schoolmaster, and was born in Southampton, July 17, 1674. He is said to have shown remarkable precocity in childhood, beginning the study of Latin, in his fourth year, and writing respectable verses at the age of seven. At the age of sixteen, he went to London to study in the Academy of the Rev. Thomas Rowe, an Independent minister. In 1698, he became assistant minister of the Independent Church, Berry St., London. In 1702, he became pastor. In 1712, he accepted an invitation to visit Sir Thomas Abney, at his residence of Abney Park, and at Sir Thomas' pressing request, made it his home for the remainder of his life. It was a residence most favourable for his health, and for the prosecution of his literary… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Lo, what a pleasing [pleasant] sight
Author:	Isaac Watts
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Lo, what a pleasing sight. This in a few collections is a rewritten form in S. M. of Watts's C. M. rendering of Ps. cxxxiii., from his Hymns, &c, 1707, and his Psalms of David, 1719, where it begins "Lo, what an entertaining sight" (p. 1240, i. 304.).

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

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