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ALL IS BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL ROUND US

Scripture Verse

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land. Song of Solomon 2:12

Introduction

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John M. Neale (1818–1866)
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Words: John M. Neale, 1846, alt.

This Saints’ day hymn is in the 3rd ser­ies of the aut­hor’s Hymns for Child­ren, 1846, No. xviii. in 4 stan­zas of 8 lines; and again, with­out al­ter­ation, in lat­er edit­ions of the same.

In the So­ci­ety for Pro­mot­ing Chris­tian Know­ledge Church Hymns, 1871, and some oth­er col­lect­ions, it is giv­en as— All is bright and cheer­ful round us; but the al­ter­ations are ve­ry slight.

Julian, p. 43

Music: Rai­pur Will­iam H. Wal­ter, in The New Child­ren’s Hym­nal, edited by J. Ire­land Tuck­er (New York: James Pott, 1892), num­ber 163a (🔊 ).

Lyrics

All is bright and cheer­ful round us,
All ab­ove is soft and blue;
Spring at last hath come and found us;
Spring and all its plea­sures too;
Every flow­er is full of glad­ness;
Dew is bright, and birds are gay;
Earth, with all its sin and sad­ness,
Seems a hap­py place to­day.

If the flow­ers, that fade so quick­ly,
If a day, that ends in night,
If the skies, that clouds so thick­ly
Often cov­er from our sight—
If they all have so much beau­ty,
What must be God’s land of rest,
Where His sons, that do their du­ty,
After ma­ny toils are blest?

There are leaves that nev­er wi­ther;
There are flow’rs that ne’er decay;
Nothing ev­il go­eth thi­ther;
Nothing good is kept away.
They that came from tri­bu­la­tion,
Washed their robes and made them white,
Out of ev­ery tongue and na­tion,
Now have rest, and peace, and light.