Sweet Rivers

Lyrics

Sweet rivers of redeeming love Lie just before mine eyes; Had I the pinions of a dove I'd to those rivers fly I'd rise superior to my pain With joy outstrip the wind; I'd cross bold Jordan's stormy main And leave the world behind While I'm imprisoned here below In anguish, pain, and smart Oft times those troubles I forgo When love surrounds my heart In darkest shadows of the night Faith mounts the upper sky: I then behold my heart's delight And would rejoice to die I View the monster death, and smile Now he has lost his sting: Though Satan rages all the while I still the triumph sing I hold my Savior in my arms And will not let him go; I'm so delighted with his charms No other good I'll know A few more days, or years at most My troubles will be o'er; I hope to join the heavenly host On Canaan's happy shore My rapturous soul shall drink and feast In love's unbounded sea; The glorious hope of endless rest Is ravishing to me O! come, my Savior, come away And bear me through the sky; Nor let thy chariot wheels delay; Make haste and bring it nigh I long to see thy glorious face And in thine image shine; To triumph in victorious grace And be for ever thine Then will I tune my harp of gold To my eternal King; In ages that never can be told I'll make his praises ring All hail, eternal Son of God Who died on Calvary; And saved me with thy precious blood From endless misery Ten thousand thousand join in one To praise the eternal Three; Prostrate before the blazing throne In deep humility They rise and tune their harps of gold And sweep the immortal lyre: And ages that can ne'er be told Shall raise thy praises higher