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1 O happy land! O happy land!
Where saints and angels dwell;
We long to join that glorious band,
And all their anthems swell.
Refrain:
O Heaven, sweet Heaven!
O home of the blest;
How I long to be there, all its glory to share,
And to lean on my Saviour's breast!
2 But every voice in yonder throng,
On earth has breathed a prayer;
No lips untaught may join that song,
Or learn the music there. [Refrain]
3 Thou heav'nly Friend! thou heavenly Friend!
O hear us when we pray;
Now let thy pard'ning grace descend,
And take our sins away. [Refrain]
4 Be all our fresh, our youthful days,
To thy blest service given;
Then we shall meet to sing thy praise,
A ransom'd band in heaven. [Refrain]
Source: Linden Harp: a rare collection of popular melodies adapted to sacred and moral songs, original and selected. Illustrated. Also a manual of... #87c
First Line: | O happy land, O happy land where saints and angels dwell! |
Author: | Elizabeth Parson |
Language: | English |
Refrain First Line: | Tune all your harps to sing |
Publication Date: | 1854 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
O happy land, O happy land. E. Parson, née Booker. [Heaven.] Contributed to J. Curwen's Child's Own Hymn Book, 1840, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines, the first beginning as above, and the second, "Thou heavenly Friend," &c. This was repeated in the Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1858, and several other collections. Another text, also by Mrs. Parson, in 3 stanzas of 4 lines was published in her Willing Class Hymns some time after her death. It consists of the two stanzas as above, somewhat altered, and another stanza, beginning, "The saints in light," &c. These three stanzas are given in W. F. Stevenson's Hymns for Church & Home, 1873.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)