My Saviour, whom absent, I love;
Whom, not having seen, I adore;
Whose name is exalted above
All glory, dominion, and power!
2 Dissolve thou those bands that detain
My soul from her portion in thee,
Ah! strike off this adamant chain,
And make me eternally free.
When that happy era begins,
When arrayed in thy glories I shine,