Lo they come from east and west

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1 Lo, they come from east and west;
Come to en­joy the heav­en­ly rest:
North and south—in bliss com­plete—
Round th’eter­nal al­tar meet.

2 Distant times and ag­es come;
Find in Heav’n one com­mon home:
Patriarchs—pro­phets—Chris­tians—all—
Prompt to ob­ey the gen­er­al call.

3 Countless host! how great! how blest!
Wondrous joy, and peace, and rest!
What shall fit us, Lord, for this?
Fit our souls for heav’n­ly bliss?

4 Peace on earth and peace alone;
Peace, which makes all church­es one:
Peace—the fruit of Christ­ian love,
Fits the soul for peace ab­ove.

5 Grant Thy gra­cious in­flu­ence, Lord;
Silence ev­ery cla­mor­ous word:
Let the Church no more be rent;
Every im­pi­ous wound pre­vent.

6 O may Christ­ians learn to love;
Love like all the saints ab­ove;
Thus on earth may Heav’n be­gin,
Free from dis­cord, wrath and sin.


Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16769

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Author: Samuel Willard

Willard, Rev. Samuel. (1776 [sic]--1859). He graduated from Harvard College in 1803, served the First Church (Unitarian) in Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1807 to 1829, when he resigned on account of blindness. In 1823 he published a collection of 158 songs, composed by himself, and in 1830 a compilation entitled Sacred Music and Poetry Reconciled, a hymnbook containing 518 hymns by various authors, about 180 of them written by himself. This book was adopted for use in the Third Parish in Hingham, Mass., where Willard was then living, but had little circulation elsewhere, and none of his hymns came into general use. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: Lo they come from east and west
Author: Samuel Willard
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
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Tune

SAVANNAH (55432)

Robin Leaver, "The origins of the tune SAVANNAH," HSGBI Bulletin 153, vol. 10, no. 1 (January 1982), pp. 26–30.

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