The Cyber Hymnal ‎#490

490. Beautiful Waters of Eden

1. Murmuring softly, caroling gently,
Music enchanting cometh to me;
Over the waters, beautiful waters,
Where in the homeland soon I shall be.
How like a vision tenderly stealing,
Over my spirit, weary, oppressed;
Drawing me upward, urging me forward,
Telling of sunshine, rapture and rest.

Refrain
Murmuring softly, caroling gently,
Music enchanting cometh to me;
Over the waters, beautiful waters,
Where in the homeland soon I shall be.

2. Silently musing, blissfully gazing
Into the future teeming with light,
Sweetly the echoes floating around me,
Whisper of Eden, lovely and bright.
Eden, where summer, fadeless, eternal,
Scatters its roses, blooming for aye;
There is no parting, there is no weeping,
Sorrow and sighing vanish away. [Refrain]

3. There our Redeemer, loving Redeemer,
Gathers the faithful safe on His breast,
Out of the changing into the changeless,
Out of the toiling into the rest.
Welcome the moment when to His presence,
Joyful my spirit flies like a bird;
O what a morrow, O what a meeting,
Eye hath not seen it, ear hath not heard. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: Murmuring softly, caroling gently
• Title: Beautiful Waters of Eden
• Author: Frances Jane (Fanny) Crosby (1890)
• Refrain First Line: Murmuring softly, caroling gently
• Language: English
• Source: The Young People's Hymnal (Nashville, Tennessee: Publishing House, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1890)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: [Murmuring softly, caroling gently]
• Composer: Adam Geibel
• Incipit: 54531 32126 64626
• Key: B♭ Major
• Copyright: Public Domain