Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Far from these narrow scenes of night
Topic: The Gospel/The Hope of Eternal Life
Writer: <no first name given> Steele
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 429
Page Number: 261, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFar from these narrow scenes of night
Unbounded glories rise;
And realms of infinite delight,
Unknown to mortal eyes.
Celestial land! could our weak eyes
But half thy charms explore,
How would our spirits long to rise,
And dwell on earth no more:
There pain and sickness never come,
And grief no place obtains;
Health triumphs in immortal bloom,
And endless pleasure reigns!
No cloud these blissful regions know,
For ever bright and fair!
For sin, the source of ev'ry wo,
Can never enter there.
There no alternate night is known,
Nor sun's faint sickly ray;
But glory from the sacred throne
Spreads everlasting day.