King of Saints, to Whom the Number (EN 5387)

EN 5387 King of Saints, to Whom the Number

2Tim.2.19

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King of saints, to Whom the number

Of Thy starry host is known,

Many a name, by man forgotten,

Lives forever round Thy throne;

Lights, which earth-born mists have darkened,

There are shining full and clear,

Princes in the court of Heaven,

Nameless, unremembered here.

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In the roll of Thine apostles

One there stands, Bartholomew,

He for whom today we offer,

Year by year, our praises due;

How he toiled for Thee and suffered

None on earth can now record;

All his saintly life is hidden

In the knowledge of his Lord.

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Was it he, beneath the fig tree

Seen of Thee, and guileless found;

He who saw the good he longed for

Rise from Nazareth’s barren ground;

He who met his risen Master

On the shore of Galilee;

He to whom the word was spoken,

“Greater things thou yet shall see”?

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None can tell us; all is written

In the Lamb’s great book of life,

All the faith, and prayer, and patience,

All the toiling, and the strife;

There are told Thy hidden treasures;

Number us, O Lord, with them,

When Thou makest up the jewels

Of Thy living diadem.

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