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Blest Be the Tie That Binds Our Hearts in Christian Love
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Blest Be the Tie That Binds Our Hearts in Christian Love is a Christian hymn. The text was written by John Fawcett.[1] It is often sung to the tune Dennis, composed by Hans Georg Nägeli (1773-1836).[2]
The hymn is featured in all three acts of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town (1940).
Lyric
- Blest be the tie that binds
- Our hearts in Christian love;
- The fellowship of kindred minds
- Is like to that above.
- Before our Father’s throne
- We pour our ardent prayers;
- Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one
- Our comforts and our cares.
- Before our Father’s throne
- We share each other’s woes,
- Our mutual burdens bear;
- And often for each other flows
- The sympathizing tear.
- When we asunder part,
- It gives us inward pain;
- But we shall still be joined in heart,
- And hope to meet again.
- When we asunder part,
- This glorious hope revives
- Our courage by the way;
- While each in expectation lives,
- And longs to see the day.
- From sorrow, toil and pain,
- And sin, we shall be free,
- And perfect love and friendship reign
- Through all eternity.
- From sorrow, toil and pain,
References
- Piano score
- Blest Be the Tie That Binds Tune: Dennis.
- Blest Be the Tie That Binds Tune: Boylston.
- Mp3skull
- ↑ John Fawcett, Hymns Adapted to the Circumstance of Public Worship, Leeds, England: 1782
- ↑ Cyberhymnal, Blest Be the Tie That Binds