Hope to have chords for this in a day or two, and then I'll say why I'm posting this one.
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IVORY PALACES 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.
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.
In garments glorious He will come, To open wide the door; And I shall enter my heav'nly home, To dwell forevermore.
SOURCE: CyberHymnal, which states: "The words are based on a sermon Barraclough heard delivered by John Chapman in 1915 at Montreat, North Carolina; in 1893, Chapman had written a book called Ivory Palaces of the King.