Rapturous Anticipation

Verse 1

Come let us ascend, My companion and friend, To a taste of the banquet above! If thy heart be as mine, If for Jesus it pine, Come up in the chariot of love.

Verse 2

Who in Jesus confide, They are bold to outride The storms of affliction beneath! With the prophet they soar To that heavenly shore, And out-fly all the arrows of death.

Verse 3

By faith we are come To our permanent home: By hope we the rapture improve: By love we still rise, And look down on the skies, For the heaven of heavens is love.

Verse 4

Who on earth can conceive How happy we live In the city of God, the great King? What a concert of praise, When our Jesus's grace, The whole heavenly company sing?

Verse 5

What a rapturous song When the glorify'd throng In the spirit of harmony join? Join all the glad choirs, Hearts, voices and lyres, And the burden is mercy divine.

Verse 6

Hallelujah they cry To the King of the sky, To the great everlasting I AM; To the Lamb who was slain, And liveth again, Hallelujah to God and the Lamb.

Verse 7

The Lamb on the throne, Lo! he dwells with his own, And to rivers of pleasure he leads; With his mercy's full blaze, With the sight of his face, Our beatify'd spirits he feeds.

Verse 8

Our foreheads proclaim His ineffable name; Our bodies his glory display: A day without night We feast in his sight, And eternity seems as a day!