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SINAI AND ZION.
Behind us Sinai's awful form,
With fiery smoke beclouded,
Lies wrapt in solitude and storm
And mists of darkness shrouded;
While far aloof a trumpet sound,
As from creation's outmost bound,
Grows faint and fainter ever.
With fiery smoke beclouded,
Lies wrapt in solitude and storm
And mists of darkness shrouded;
While far aloof a trumpet sound,
As from creation's outmost bound,
Grows faint and fainter ever.
Gaze not upon the pathway trod:
Mount Zion is before us,
The city of the living God,
Jerusalem the glorious.
Lo yonder through the crystal skies
Its gates and golden ramparts rise,
The home of love for ever.
Mount Zion is before us,
The city of the living God,
Jerusalem the glorious.
Lo yonder through the crystal skies
Its gates and golden ramparts rise,
The home of love for ever.
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And there beside the fruitful banks
Of life's perennial waters,
Mingle with myriad angel ranks
God's ransom'd sons and daughters:
While echoes from their festal throng
The voice of harping and the song
Of jubilee for ever.
Of life's perennial waters,
Mingle with myriad angel ranks
God's ransom'd sons and daughters:
While echoes from their festal throng
The voice of harping and the song
Of jubilee for ever.
O joy of joys! no cloud between;
No dream of fabling story;—
They see Him whom they loved unseen
There face to face in glory.
Before the uncreated light
They stand in robes of filmless white,
And reign with Him for ever.
No dream of fabling story;—
They see Him whom they loved unseen
There face to face in glory.
Before the uncreated light
They stand in robes of filmless white,
And reign with Him for ever.
1871.
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