When I can read my title clear

General information

'When I can read my title clear' is a hymn by Isaac Watts, published as Hymn 65 in Book 2 of his Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

Settings by composers

• Lucius Chapin — Ninety-Fifth  English SATB
• James C. Lowry — Pisgah  English SATB
• S. McFarland — Dunlap's Creek  English SATB
• Samuel Wakefield — Fayette  English STB
• William Walker — Dudley  English STB

 

Text and translations

English text

1  When I can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies,
I bid farewell to ev'ry fear,
And wipe my weeping eyes.

2  Should earth against my soul engage,
And hellish darts be hurl'd,
Then I can smile at Satan's rage,
And face a frowning world.

3  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:

4  There shall I bathe my weary soul
In seas of heav'nly rest,
And not a wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast.

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