192.  Dead To The World

1
Not to ourselves again,
Not to the flesh we live;
Not to the world henceforth shall we
Our strength, our being give.

2
The time past of our lives,
Sufficeth to have wrought
The fleshly will, which only ill
Has to us ever brought.

3
No truce with vanity,
Or this world’s idle show;
Lust of the flesh and eye, or pride
Of life, we shall not know.

4
Dead to the world and all
Its gayety and pride
To its vain pomp and glory be
Forever crucified.

5
When he who is our life
Appears to take the throne,
We, too, shall be revealed, and shine
In glory like his own.

6
Shine as the sun shall we
In the bright kingdom then;
Our sky without a single cloud,
Ourselves without a stain.

7
Like him we then shall be
Transformed and glorified;
For we shall see him as he is,
And in his light abide.