The Southern harmony, and musical companion containing a choice collection of tunes, hymns, psalms, odes, and anthems |
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[There is a world we have not seen] |
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[There is a world we have not seen]
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There is a world we have not seen,That time shall never dare destroy,
Where mortal footstep hath not been,
Nor ear hath caught its sounds of joy:
There is a region lovelier far
Than angels tell or poets sing,
Brighter than summer's beauties are,
And softer than the tints of spring.
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There is a world, and oh! how blest,Fairer than prophets ever told,
And never did an angel guest
One half its blessedness unfold:
It is all holy and serene,
The land of glory and repose;
And there, to dim the radiant scene,
The tear of sorrow never flows.
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It is not fann'd by summer gale;'Tis not refresh'd by vernal show'rs;
It never needs the moonbeam pale,
For there are known no evening hours:
No, for this world is ever bright
With a pure radiance all its own;
The stream of uncreated light
Flows round it from th' eternal throne.
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There forms that mortals may not see,Too glorious for the eye to trace,
And clad in peerless majesty,
Move with unutterable grace:
In vain the philosophic eye
May seek to view the fair abode,
Or find it in the curtain'd sky:
It is the dwelling-place of God.
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