FOR thee, O dear, dear country, Mine eyes their vigils keep; For very love, beholding Thy happy name, they weep. The mention of thy glory Is unction to the breast, And medicine in sickness, And love, and life, and rest. For thee, &c. 2 O one, O only mansion, O paradise of joy, Where tears are ever banished, And smiles have no alloy; The Lamb is all thy splendor, The Crucified thy praise; His laud and benediction Thy ransomed people raise. For thee, &c. 3 With jasper glow thy bulwarks, Thy streets with emerald blaze; The sardius and the topaz Unite in thee their rays; 4 Thou hast no shore, fair ocean; Bernard of Morlaix ab. 1150 4 But He whom now we trust in 6 There God our King and portion, Bernard of Morlaix ab. 1150 ALFORD 7s 6s, D. J. B. DYKES Ten thousand times ten thousand, In spark-ling rai-ment bright, The ar- mies of the g ransomed saints Throng up the steeps of light: 'Tis fin-ished,all is fin- ished, Their TEN thousand times ten thousand, Their fight with death and sin: Fling open wide the golden gates, And let the victors in. 2 What rush of hallelujahs Fills all the earth and sky; And all its tribes were made; WOOLWICH S. M. 30 then what raptured greetings Nor widows desolate. 4 Bring near Thy great salvation, Thou Lamb for sinners slain; Fill up the roll of Thine elect, Then take Thy power and reign! Appear, Desire of nations! Thine exiles long for home: Show in the heavens Thy promised sign! C. E. KETTLE CIVITAS DEI 8, 8, 7. D. J. B. CALKIN Upward where the stars are burning, Silent,silent in their turning, Round the never-changing pole; Upward where the sky is brightest, Upward where the blue is lightest, Lift I now my longing soul. COME to the land of peace, From shadows come away; Where all the sounds of weeping cease, And storms no more have sway. 2 Come to the bright and blest, Gathered from every land; 3 In this divine abode Change leaves no saddening trace; 4 "Come to our peaceful home," 984 Felicia Dorothea Hemans alt. Briggs' Col. 1845 THERE is no night in heaven; 3 Where the Lamb on high is seated, By ten thousand voices greeted, Lord of lords, and King of kings. Lay we at His blessed feet. When before His throne we meet. Work never can bring weariness, 2 There is no grief in heaven; 3 There is no sin in heaven; Behold that blessed throng All holy is their spotless robe! All holy is their song! 4 There is no death in heaven; For they who gain that shore Have won their immortality, And they can die no more. 5 Lord Jesus, be our guide; O lead us safely on, Till night and grief and sin and death Francis Minden Knollys 1859 |