Praise Ye the Lord: My Heart Shall Join ROCKINGHAM—Lowell Mason Praise Ye the Lord: My Heart Shall Join 1 Praise ye the Lord: my heart shall join In work so pleasant, so divine; Now while the flesh is mine abode And when my soul ascends to God. 2 Praise shall employ my noblest powers, While immortality endures; My days of praise shall ne’er be past, While life, and thought, and being last. 3 Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel’s God: he made the sky, And earth, and seas, with all their