# Lord’s Day Hymn – “The Sands of Time Are Sinking”

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- Published: 2012-05-13T15:30:05-05:00
- Author: tollelege

**“The Sands of Time are Sinking”**
 By Anne Ross Cousin (1857), based on the letters
of Samuel Rutherford

The sands of time are sinking, the dawn of Heaven breaks;
 The summer morn I’ve 
sighed for—the fair, sweet morn awakes: Dark, dark hath been the midnight, but dayspring
is at hand, And glory, glory dwelleth in Immanuel’s land.

The King there in His beauty, without a veil is seen:
 It were a well spent journey,
though seven deaths lay between: The Lamb with His fair army, doth on Mount Zion
stand, And glory—glory dwelleth in Immanuel’s land.

O Christ, He is the fountain, the deep, sweet well of love!
 The streams of earth
I’ve tasted more deep I’ll drink above: There to an ocean fullness His mercy doth
expand, And glory, glory dwelleth in Immanuel’s land.

With mercy and with judgment my web of time He wove,
 And aye, the dews of sorrow
were lustered with His love; I’ll bless the hand that guided, I’ll bless the heart
that planned When throned where glory dwelleth in Immanuel’s land.

O I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved’s mine!
 He brings a poor vile sinner into His“
house of wine.” I stand upon His merit—I know no other stand, Not even where glory
dwelleth in Immanuel’s land.

The Bride eyes not her garment, but her dear Bridegroom’s face;
 I will not gaze
at glory but on my King of grace. Not at the crown He giveth but on His pierced 
hand; The Lamb is all the glory of Immanuel’s land.

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