IVORY PALACES
"All Your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from
palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes You glad."
Psalms 45:8
Words & Music: Henry Barraclough, 1915.
My Lord has garments so wondrous fine,
And myrrh their texture fills;
Its fragrance reached to this heart of mine
With joy my being thrills.
Refrain
Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe,
Only His great eternal love
Made my Savior go.
His life had also its sorrows sore,
For aloes had a part;
And when I think of the cross He bore,
My eyes with teardrops start.
Refrain
In garments glorious He will come,
To open wide the door;
And I shall enter my heav'nly home,
To dwell forevermore.
Refrain