Scripture Verse

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

Introduction

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J. S. Kimbrough

Words: J. S. Kim­brough, in The Best Gos­pel Songs and Their Com­pos­ers (Dal­ton, Geor­gia: An­tho­ny J. Sho­wal­ter, 1904), num­ber 45.

Music: Al­bert C. Neece (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you Kimb­rough’s full name, or where to get a bet­ter pho­to of him,

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Albert C. Neece
1870–1958

Lyrics

No night in Heav’n! O blessèd thought,
With joy and holy rapture fraught,
No shadows veil its glo­ry bright,
Nor dim its radiant heav’nly light.

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To that fair land, O let me come,
When sinks at last life’s setting sun,
And hope in glad fruition blest,
Shall end in ev­er­last­ing rest.

No tears in Heav’n! nothing but joy,
Sweet happiness without alloy,
No crying there, no grief or pain,
No sorrows ever come again.

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No longing for the day to come,
No waiting for the coming morn,
No waning of the glo­ri­ous light,
No fading of the landscape bright.

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Celestial beauties ev­er­more
Shall bloom on that eter­nal shore,
While pleasures die not nor decay,
In that bright clime of endless day.

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