I gladly shall feel the blest morn drawing near,
When time’s dreary fancy shall fade,
If then in thy likeness I may but appear,
I rise with thy beauty arrayed.
One more stanza of text in the Revivalist. The song is used “as sung by Rev. G. C. Wells.” It is reminiscent of the ‘Henry Martin’ tune; see Gould and Sharp, English Folk-Songs for Schools, p. 22.
No. 149
[EDGEFIELD], OSH 82
Heptatonic aeolian, mode 2 A + b (I II 3 IV V 6 7)
How tedious and tasteless the hours
When Jesus no longer I see!