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<h2>O’ER THE DISTANT MOUNTAINS BREAKING</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” Mark 13:33</h3></p>
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<p><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_m_o_monsell_jsb.html" target="_blank">John Samuel Bewley Monsell</a>, 1863.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Störl,” Johann Georg Christian Störl, 1744 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_storl.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>O’er the distant mountains breaking<br>
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Comes the redd’ning dawn of day;<br>
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Rise, my soul, from sleep awaking,<br>
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Rise, and sing, and watch, and pray;<br>
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’Tis the Savior, blessèd Lord,<br>
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On His bright returning way.</p>
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<p>O Thou long expected, weary<br>
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Waits my anxious soul for Thee;<br>
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Life is dark, and earth is dreary,<br>
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When Thy light I do not see;<br>
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O my Savior, blessèd Lord,<br>
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When wilt Thou return to me?</p>
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<p>Long, too long, in sin and sadness,<br>
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Far away from Thee I pine;<br>
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When, O when, shall I the gladness<br>
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Of Thy Spirit feel in mine?<br>
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O, my Savior, blessèd Lord,<br>
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When shall I be wholly Thine?</p>
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<p>Nearer is my soul’s salvation,<br>
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Spent the night, the day at hand;<br>
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Keep me in my lowly station,<br>
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Watching for Thee, till I stand,<br>
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O my Savior, blessèd Lord,<br>
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In Thy bright, Thy promised land.</p>
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<p>With my lamp well trimmed and burning,<br>
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Swift to hear and slow to roam,<br>
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Watching for Thy glad returning<br>
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To restore me to my home.<br>
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Come, my Savior, blessèd Lord,<br>
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Thou hast promised, quickly come!</p>
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