31 days of Hymns - Day 3

Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:14

How Shall I Sing Thy Majesty by John Mason (1645-95)

performed by Jon Yerby
http://journeyonmusic.net/track/how-shall-i-sing-that-majesty

1 How shall I sing that Majesty
which angels do admire?
Let dust in dust and silence lie;
sing, sing, ye heavenly choir.
Thousands of thousands stand around
thy throne, O God most high;
ten thousand times ten thousand sound
thy praise; but who am I?


2 Thy brightness unto them appears,
whilst I thy footsteps trace;
a sound of God comes to my ears;
but they behold thy face.
They sing because thou art their Sun:
Lord, send a beam on me;
for where heaven is but once begun,
there alleluias be.

 3 How great a being Lord, is thine,
which doth all beings keep!
Thy knowledge is the only line
to sound so vast a deep.
Thou art a sea without a shore,
a sun without a sphere;
thy time is now and evermore,
thy place is everywhere.

Source: Church Hymnary, Fourth Edition #128


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