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Hymn: There's music in the upper heaven (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist

Date: 1850

Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard

First Line: There's music in the upper heaven

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: DCM

Tune: Louisville

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 140, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

There's music in the upper heaven

The choral notes that swell

Are sweeter, fuller, richer far

Than human lips can tell,

When rings the gush of golden harps,

And heavenly lutes are swept

To tell the quenchless love of Him 

Who o'er a lost world wept.

To tell the quenchless love of Him

Who o'er a lost world wept.



The gliding rush of countless wings,

Borne on the swelling breeze,

That wafts the rustling music by 

Amid embowered trees;

The echo of the myriad feet,

That fall on pavements fair,

Of glittering, dazzling gold, that gleams

In untold brightness there:



The music of the pearly gates,

When back by angels flung,

Admitting there a ransomed soul,

Their sinless bands among:

The silvery sound that's swelling up

When flows the stream of life;

The rustle of the emerald leaf

With healing virtues rife:



And then the tide of melody,

That swells and bursts, when rings

The New Song in that far off world,

That thrilling rapture brings:-

But, awed, we may not note its power-

It depths we may not sound;

Unfathomed, fathomless, it rolls

In glorious might around.