Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: No night shall be in heaven no gathering gloom
Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 10s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1169
Page Number: 703, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNo night shall be in heaven! no gathering gloom
Shall o'er that glorious landscape ever come;
No tears shall fall in sadness o'er those flowers
That breathe their fragrance through celestial bowers.
No night shall be in heaven! no dreadful hour
Of mental darkness, of the tempter's power-
Across these skies no envious clouds shall roll,
To dim the sunlight of the raptured soul.
No night shall be in heaven. Forbid to sleep,
These eyes no more their mournful vigils keep,
Their fountains dried-their tears all wiped away-
They gaze undazzled on eternal day.
No night shall be in heaven-no sorrow's reign;
No secret anguish, no corporeal pain;
No shivering limbs, no burning fever there;
No soul's eclipse, no winter of despair.
No night shall be in heaven, but endless noon-
No fast declining sun, no waning moon:
But there the Lamb shall yeild perpetual light,
'Mid pastures green, and waters ever bright.