Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Far from these narrow scenes of night
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 120
Page Number: 067, 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 its 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 those blissful regions know,
Forever 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.