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Text:Our country is Immanuel's ground
Author:Anna L. Barbauld
Tune:CHURCH
Composer:Joseph P. Holbrook

239. Our country is Immanuel's ground

1 Our country is Immanuel’s ground,
We seek that promised soil;
The songs of Zion cheer our hearts,
While strangers here we toil.

2 Oft do our eyes with joy o’erflow,
And oft are bathed in tears;
Yet nought but heaven our hopes can raise,
And nought but sin our fears.

3 We tread the path our Master trod;
We bear the cross He bore;
And every thorn that wounds our feet
His temples pierced before.

4 Our powers are oft dissolved away
In ecstasies of love;
And while our bodies wander here
Our souls are fixed above.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Our country is Immanuel's ground
Author: Anna L. Barbauld (1792)
Meter: C. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1899
Topic: Heaven: Anticipated; Lent
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: CHURCH
Composer: Joseph P. Holbrook
Meter: C. M.
Notes: Public Domain.



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