title: Oh, What Songs of the Heart
text: # Oh, What Songs of the Heart
  
  "Oh, What Songs of the Heart" is a Mormon hymn, the text of which was written by Joseph L. Townsend, a Latter-day Saint poet who lived in the late 19th and early 20th century. The music was written by Latter-day Saint musician William Clayson. It is one of the few hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that implies the existence of a Heavenly Mother.
  
  ## Lyrics
  
  Oh, what songs of the heart We shall sing all the day, When again we assemble at home, When we meet ne'er to part
  
  With the blest o'er the way,
  
  There no more from our loved ones to roam!
  
  When we meet ne'er to part,
  
  Oh, what songs of the heart
  
  We shall sing in our beautiful home.
  
  Tho our rapture and bliss
  
  There's no song can express,
  
  We will shout, we will sing o'er and o'er,
  
  As we greet with a kiss,
  
  And with joy we caress
  
  All our loved ones that passed on before; As we greet with a kiss, In our rapture and bliss,
  
  All our love ones that passed on before.
  
  Oh, the visions we'll see
  
  In that home of the blest,
  
  There's no word, there's no thought can impart,
  
  But our rapture will be
  
  All the soul can attest,
  
  In the heavenly songs of the heart;
  
  But our rapture will be In the vision we'll see
  
  Best expressed in the songs of the heart
  
  Oh, what songs we'll employ!
  
  Oh, what welcome we'll hear!
  
  When we kneel at our dear Savior's feet.
  
  And the heart swells with joy
  
  In embraces most dear
  
  When our heavenly parents we meet! Oh, what songs we'll employ
  
  As the heart swells with joy,
  
  When our heavenly parents we meet!
  
  ## Current usage
  
  "Oh, What Songs of the Heart" is hymn #286 in the LDS Church's current hymnal.
  
  