Now let our souls on wings sublime

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Now let our souls on wings sublime is a hymn by Thomas Gibbons: it was first published in his Sermons on Various Subjects, with a Hymn adapted to each Subject, 1762, and was subsequently included as hymn 323 in John Rippon's Selection of Hymns.

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1  Now let our souls on wings sublime
Rise from the vanities of time,
Draw back the parting veil, and see
The glories of eternity.

2  Born by a new celestial birth,
Why should we grovel here on earth?
Why grasp at transitory toys,
So near to heav'n's eternal joys?

3  Shall aught beguile us on the road,
When we are walking back to God?
For strangers into life we come,
And dying is but going home.

4  Welcome sweet hour of full discharge,
That sets our longing souls at large,
Unbinds our chains, breaks up our cell,
And gives us with our God to dwell.

5  To dwell with God, to feel his love,
Is the full heav'n enjoy'd above;
And the sweet expectation now
Is the young dawn of heav'n below.

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