Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: There's a land far away 'mid the stars we are told
Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven
Writer: J Clarke
Composer:
Meter: PM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1167
Page Number: 701, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThere's a land far away 'mid the stars, we are told,
Where they know not the sorrows of time,
Where the pure waters wander through valleys of gold,
And where life is a treasure sublime;
'Tis the land of our God-'tis the home of the soul,
Where the ages of splendor eternally roll;
Where the way-weary traveler reaches his goal,
On the ever-green mountains of life.
Here our gaze can not soar to that beautiful land,
But our visions have told of its bliss,
And our souls by the gale from its gardens a fanned,
When we faint in the deserts of this;
And we sometimes have longed for its holy repose,
When our spirits were torn with temptation and woe,
And we've drank from the tide of the river that flows
From the ever-green mountains of life.
O the stars never tread the blue heavens by night,
But we think where the ransomed have trod,
And the day never smiles from his palace of light,
But we feel the bright smiles of our God.
We are traveling homeward through changes and gloom,
To a kingdom where pleasures unchangingly bloom;
And our guide is the glory that shines through the tomb
From the ever-green mountains of life.