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Hymn 979

King of Saints, to whom the number

Meter: 7.7.7.7.

1

King of Saints, to whom the number

Of Thy starry host is known,

Many a name, by man forgotten,

Lives forever round Thy throne;

2

Lights, which earth-born mists have darken'd,

There are shining full and clear,

Princes in the court of heaven,

Nameless, unremembered here.

3

How they toiled for Thee and suffer'd,

None on earth can now record;

All their saintly life is hidden

In the knowledge of their Lord.

4

All is veiled from us, but written

In the Lamb’s great book of life,

All the faith, and prayer, and patience,

All the toiling, and the strife.

5

There are told Thy hidden treasures;

Number us, O Lord, with them,

When Thou makest up the jewels

Of Thy living diadem.