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(1444.) 3 Come, ye angelic cnvoys! come,
And lead the willing pilgrim home :
Ye know the way to Jesus' throne.—
Source of my joys, and of your own.

1 Now let our souls, en wings sublime,
Rise from the vanities of time,
Draw back the parting veil, and see
The glories of eternity.

2 Born by a new celestial birth,
Why should we grovel here on earth?
Why grasp at transitory toys,
So near to heaven's eternal joys?

3 Shall aught beguile us on the road,
While we are traveling back to God?
For strangers into life we come,
And dying is but going home.

4 Welcome, sweet hour of full discharge !
That sets my longing soul at large,
Unbinds my chains, breaks up my cell,
And gives me with my God to dwell.
5 To dwell with God, to feel his love,
Is the full heaven enjoyed above;
And the sweet expectation now
Is the young dawn of heaven below.

736.

Thomas Gibbons, 1762.

"Better to depart." 1 WHILE on the verge of life I stand, And view the scene on either hand, My spirit struggles with its clay, And longs to wing its flight away.

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1 HARK! how the choral song of heaven
Swells, full of peace and joy, above;
Hark! how they strike their golden harps,
And raise the tuneful notes of love.

2 No anxious care, nor thrilling grief,
No deep despair, nor gloomy woe
They feel, while high their lotty strains
In noblest, sweetest concord flow.
(1445.) 3 When shall we join the heavenly host,
Who sing Immanuel's praise on high,
And leave behind our fears and doubts,
To swell the chorus of the sky?

2 Where Jesus dwells my soul would be ;
It faints my much-loved Lord to see;
Earth! twine no more about my heart,
For 't is far better to depart.

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(1450.)

10 PARADISE eternal !

What bliss to enter thee,
And, once within thy portals,
Secure for ever be !

In thee no sin nor sorrow,

No pain nor death, is known;
But pure glad life, enduring

As heaven's benignant throne.

2 There all around shall love us,
And we return their love;
One band of happy spirits,
One family above:

There God shall be our portion,
And we his jewels be;

And, gracing his bright mansions,
His smile reflect and see.

3 So songs shall rise for ever,
While all creation fair,
Still more and more revealed,
Shall wake fresh praises there:
O paradise eternal!

What joys in thee are known!
O God of mercy! guide us,
Till all be felt our own.

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As heaven's benignant throne.

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O happy retribution!
Short toil, eternal rest;
For mortals, and for sinners,
A mansion with the blest!

2 There grief is turned to pleasure; Such pleasure, as below

No human voice can utter,

No human heart can know:
And, after fleshly scandal,

And, after this world's night,
And, after storm and whirlwind,
Is calm, and joy, and light.

3 And there is David's fountain,
And life in fullest glow;
And there the light is golden,
And milk and honey flow;
The light, that hath no evening,
The health, that hath no sore,
The life, that hath no ending,
But lasteth evermore.

4 There Jesus shall embrace us,
There Jesus be embraced,-
That spirit's food and sunshine,
Whence earthly love is chased:
Yes! God, my King and Portion,
In fullness of his grace,
We then shall see for ever,
And worship face to face.

Lat. Bernard de Morlaix, ab. 1150.
Tr. John Mason Neale, 1851.

EWING.

7s. & 6s. 8 LINES.

Alexander Ewing, 1860.

Jerusalem, the gol-den, With milk and hon-cy blest! Be-neath thy con-tem pla-tion Sink heart and voice oppressed:

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I know not, Oh! I know not What so-cial joys are there, What radian-cy of glory, What light beyond com-pare.

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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.

2 O one, O onely mansion!
O paradise of joy!
Where tears are ever banished,
And smiles have no alloy;
The cross is all thy splendor,
The Crucified thy praise;
His laud and benediction

Thy ransomed people raise.

3 Jesus, the Gem of beauty,
True God and Man, they sing;-
The never-failing Garden,
The ever-golden Ring;

The Door, the Pledge, the Husband,
The Guardian of his court;

The Day-star of salvation,

The Porter and the Port.

4 Thou hast no shore, fair ocean!
Thou hast no time, bright day!
Dear fountain of refreshment
To pilgrims far away!
Upon the Rock of ages,

They raise thy holy tower;
Thine is the victor's laurel,
And thine the golden dower.

Lat., Bernard de Morlaix, ab. 1150.
Tr., John Mason Neale, 1851.

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742.

"Urbs Syon inclyta, Gloria.”

1 JERUSALEM, the glorious!
The glory of th' elect,-

O dear and future vision,
That eager hearts expect!
Ev'n now by faith I see thee,
Ev'n here thy walls discern;
To thee my thoughts are kindled,
And strive, and pant, and yearn!

2 Jerusalem the onely,

That look'st from heaven below,
In thee is all my glory,

In me is all my woe:
Jerusalem! exulting

On that securest shore,

I hope thee, wish thee, sing thee,
And love thee evermore!

3 O sweet and blessed country!
Shall I e'er see thy face?
O sweet and blessed country!
Shall I e'er win thy grace?-
Exult, O dust and ashes!

The Lord shall be thy part;
His only, his for ever,

Thou shalt be, and thou art!

743.

(1454.)

Lat., Bernard de Morlaix, ab. 1150. 1r. John Mason Neale, 1851.

"Ermuntert euch, ihr Frommen." (1455.) 1 REJOICE, all ye believers! And let your lights appear;

The evening is advancing,

And darker night is near;
The Bridegroom is arising,
And soon he draweth nigh;
Up! pray, and watch, and wrestle;
At midnight comes the cry.

2 The watchers on the mountain
Proclaim the Bridegroom near;
Go meet him as he cometh,
With hallelujahs clear;
The marriage-feast is waiting,
The gates wide open stand;
Up! up! ye heirs of glory!
The Bridegroom is at hand.

3 Ye saints! who here in patience
Your cross and sufferings bore,
Shall live and reign for ever,
When sorrow is no more;
Around the throne of glory,
The Lamb ye shall behold,
In triumph cast before him
Your diadems of gold!
4 Our Hope and Expectation,
O Jesus! now appear;
Arise, thou Sun so longed for,
O'er this benighted sphere:
With hearts and hands uplifted,
We plead, O Lord! to see
The day of earth's redemption,
That brings us unto thee!

Ger., Laurentius Laurenti, 1700.
Tr., Jane Borthwick, 1853.

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There'll be no sorrow there;
In heaven above, where all is love,
There'll be no sorrow there.

2 When cold and sluggish drops
Roll off my marble brow,
Break forth in songs of joyfulness,
Let heaven begin below.

3 When the last moments come,
Oh! watch my dying face,

To catch the bright seraphic gleam,
Which on each feature plays.

4 Then to my raptured ear

Let one sweet song be given ; Let music cheer me last on earth, And greet me first in heaven!

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He passed thro' death's dark raging flood,
To make my rest secure.

4 The Comforter has come,

The earnest has been given ;
He leads me onward to the home,
Reserved for me in heaven.

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To sing, with thousand saints above,
The triumphs of our King!

(1457.) 4 With pure and sinless heart,
His mercies to adore!

My God! to know thee as thou art,
Nor grieve thy Spirit more!

5 Blest hope! a little while,
And we, amidst that throng
Shall live in our Redeemer's smile,
And swell the angels' song.

Anon., 1862, a.

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