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Ivory Palaces

([MY LORD HAS GARMENTS SO WONDROUS FINE])
1.

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.

2.

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:
Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe—
Only His great, eternal love
Made my Savior go.

3.

His garments too were in cassia dipped,
With healing in a touch;
Each time my feet in some sin have slipped,
He took me from its clutch.

Refrain:
Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe—
Only His great, eternal love
Made my Savior go.

4.

In garments glorious He will come,
To open wide the door;
And I shall enter my heav'nly home,
To dwell forevermore.

Refrain:
Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe—
Only His great, eternal love
Made my Savior go.