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Hymn: There is a land a happy land (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: There is a land a happy land

Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven

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

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1129

Page Number: 671, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

There is a land, a happy land,

Where tears are wiped away

From ev'ry eye, by God's own hand,

And night is turned to day.



There is a home, a happy home, 

Where way-worn travelers rest,

Where toil and languor never come,

And every mourner's blest.



There is a port, a peaceful port,

A safe and quiet shore,

Where weary mariners resort,

And fear the storms no more.



There is a crown, a dazzling crown,

Bedecked with jewels fair;

And priests and kings of high renown,

That crown of glory wear.



That land be mine, that calm retreat,

That crown of glory bright;

Then I'll esteem each bitter sweet,

And every burden light.