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Looking Beyond

I am looking beyond the darkness Gathering so oft around me

Author: Jennie Wilson
Tune: [I am looking beyond the darkness]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 I am looking beyond the darkness
Gath’ring so oft around me here;
And a blessed, a holy vision
Lends to my soul sweet cheer.

Refrain:
I am looking beyond my toiling,
Waiting to hear the Lord say, Come,
Then with him I shall rest forever
Safe in my heav’nly home.

2 I am looking beyond the pathways
Often so rough for weary feet,
To the rapture of pure redeem’d ones
Treading the golden street. [Refrain]

3 I am looking beyond sad parting,
Trials of life so hard to bear,
To the meeting in God’s fair city;
Sorrow comes never there. [Refrain]

4 I am looking beyond the earth-life
Soon with its cares to close for me;
And by faith, in the realms eternal
Glories untold I see. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Summerland #120

Author: Jennie Wilson

Wilson, Jennie Bain. (d. 3 September 1913). Obituaries available in the DNAH Archives.… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: I am looking beyond the darkness Gathering so oft around me
Title: Looking Beyond
Author: Jennie Wilson
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I am looking beyond my toiling
Copyright: Public Domain

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Carols of Hope #182

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Songs of Summerland #120

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