You help make Hymnary.org possible.

In 2025, more than 10 million people from 200+ countries found hymns, liturgical resources, and encouragement here. If Hymnary has meant something to you this year, would you take a moment to help sustain it? A gift of any size — and a note of encouragement, if you'd like to share one — directly supports the server costs, research, and curation that keep this resource freely available to the world.

Give securely online today, or mail a check to:
Hymnary.org (c/o Calvin University)
3201 Burton Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Thank you for being part of this important online ministry resource.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:There are no dreams beyond the tomb

308. There are no dreams beyond the tomb

1 There are no dreams beyond the tomb,
The night of dreams is o'er;
'Tis only here they go and come,
On this dull, shadowy shore.

2 And when the morn of morns shall come,
The resurrection-day,
Then yet more real shall all become,
And shadows pass away.

3 How true and great that world must be,
How false, how little this!
Man sees not what he seems to see,
He seems not what he is.

4 But morn is coming with its light,
To chase each shade and ill,
Then time's vain beauty shall take flight,
Like rainbow from the hill.

5 When Christ returneth from on high,
Gone is the night of dreams;
Gone is the shadow and the lie;
Earth shall be what it seems.

Text Information
First Line: There are no dreams beyond the tomb
Language: English
Publication Date: 1868
Tune Information
(No tune information)



Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.