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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Far from these narrow scenes of night (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1853

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: Far from these narrow scenes of night

Topic: The Christian's Hope Rank Honors and Future Glory

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

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: Song 329

Page Number: 398, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

FAR 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 woe,

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.