Hymn
When I Can Read My Title Clear
- Writer
- Isaac Watts
- Tune
- PISGAH
When I can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies,
I bid farewell to ev'ry fear,
And wipe my weeping eyes,...
And wipe my weeping eyes.
Should earth against my soul engage,
And hellish darts be hurled,
Then I can smile at Satan's rage,
And face a frowning world,...
And face a frowning world.
Let cares like a wild deluge come,
And storms of sorrow fall;
May I but safely reach my home,
My God, my heav'n, my all,...
My God, my heav'n, my all.
There shall I bathe my weary soul
In seas of heav'nly rest,
And not a wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast,...
Across my peaceful breast.
When I Can Read My Title Clear — Text from The New Christian Hymnal, 1929. Public domain. https://yeshuanow.com/hymns/when-i-can-read-my-title-clear
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Questions about this hymn
Who wrote When I Can Read My Title Clear?
The words of When I Can Read My Title Clear were written by Isaac Watts; the version here was published in 1929. The library holds 248 more hymns by Isaac Watts, including Christ's Dying Love and Sinai and Zion.
Is When I Can Read My Title Clear public domain?
Yes. The words here are taken from The New Christian Hymnal, published in 1929. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright in the United States, so you can print, project, perform and record this hymn freely. How we source and check every hymn.
What is the meter of When I Can Read My Title Clear?
When I Can Read My Title Clear is in Common Meter (8.6.8.6). Hymns in the same meter can usually be sung to the same tunes — for example, Thanksgiving for God's Particular Providence, All Scripture Precious and Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee.