Introduction
Words: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882).
Music: William A. Ogden, in The Sunday School Banner, by Theodore E. Perkins (New York: William B. Bradbury, 1865) (🔊 pdf nwc).
The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Revelation 21:23
Words: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882).
Music: William A. Ogden, in The Sunday School Banner, by Theodore E. Perkins (New York: William B. Bradbury, 1865) (🔊 pdf nwc).
There is a land, a sunny land,
Whose skies are ever bright,
Where evening shadows never fall,
The Savior is its light.
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If the cross we meekly bear,
Then the crown we shall wear,
When we dwell among the fair,
In the bright forevermore.
There is a clime, a peaceful clime,
Beyond life’s narrow sea,
Where every storm is hushed to rest,
There let our treasure be.
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There is a home, a glorious home,
A heav’nly mansion fair;
And those we loved so fondly here,
Will bid us welcome there.
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We long to leave these fading scenes,
That glide so quickly by;
And join the shining host above,
Where joy can never die.
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