978

FOR thee, O dear, dear country,
Mine eyes their vigils keep;
For very love, beholding
Thy happy name, they weep.
The mention of thy glory

Is unction to the breast,
And medicine in sickness,
And love, and life, and rest.
For thee, &c.

2 O one, O only mansion,

O paradise of joy,

Where tears are ever banished,

And smiles have no alloy;
The Lamb is all thy splendor,
The Crucified thy praise;
His laud and benediction
Thy ransomed people raise.
For thee, &c.

3 With jasper glow thy bulwarks, Thy streets with emerald blaze; The sardius and the topaz

Unite in thee their rays; Thine ageless walls are bonded With amethyst unpriced; The saints build up its fabric; The corner-stone is Christ. For thee, &c.

4 Thou hast no shore, fair ocean; Thou hast no time, bright day; Dear fountain of refreshment

To pilgrims far away.

Upon the Rock of Ages

They raise thy holy tower;
Thine is the victor's laurel,

And thine the golden dower.
For thee, &c.

Bernard of Morlaix, ab. 1150 Tr. by John Mason Neale 1851

4 But He whom now we trust in
Shall then be seen and known;
And they that know and see Him
Shall have Him for their own.

5 The morning shall awaken,
The shadows shall decay,
And each true-hearted servant
Shall shine as doth the day.

6 There God our King and portion, In fulness of His grace,

Shall we behold forever,

And worship face to face.

Bernard of Morlaix, ab. 1150 Tr. by John Mason Neale 1851

D.C.

980

JERUSALEM the glorious!

The glory of the elect!

O dear and future vision

That eager hearts expect: E'en now by faith I see thee; E'en here thy walls discern: To Thee my thoughts are kindled, And strive and pant and yearn.-CHO.

2 Thy loveliness oppresses

All human thought and heart,
And none, O peace, O Zion,

Can sing thee as thou art.
New mansion of new people,
Whom God's own love and light
Promote, increase, make holy,
Identify, unite.-CHO.

3 And there the band of Prophets
United praise ascribes,

And there the twelve-fold chorus
Of Israel's ransomed tribes:
And there the Sole-Begotten
Is Lord in regal state;
He, Judah's mystic Lion,

He, Lamb Immaculate.-CHO.

4 O fields that know no sorrow!
O state that fears no strife!
O princely land of flowers!

O realm and home of life!
O sweet and blessed country,
Shall I e'er see thy face?

O sweet and blessed country,

Shall I e'er win thy grace?-CHO. Bernard of Morlaix, ab. 1150 Tr. by John Mason Neale 1851

H. J. Gauntlett

ALFORD 7s, 6s. D.

J. B. Dykes

armies of the

fin-ished, Their

fight with death and sin:

981

TEN thousand times ten thousand,
In sparkling raiment bright,
The armies of the ransomed saints
Throng up the steeps of light:
'Tis finished, all is finished,

Their fight with death and sin: Fling open wide the golden gates, And let the victors in.

2 What rush of hallelujahs
Fills all the earth and sky;
What ringing of a thousand harps
Bespeaks the triumph nigh.
O day, for which Creation

And all its tribes were made;
O joy, for all its former woes
A thousand fold repaid.

3 0 then what raptured greetings 80
On Canaan's happy shore;
What knitting severed friendships up
Where partings are no more.
Then eyes with joy shall sparkle,
That brimmed with tears of late:
Orphans no longer fatherless,
Nor widows desolate.

4 Bring near Thy great salvation,
Thou Lamb for sinners slain;
Fill up the roll of Thine elect,

Then take Thy power and reign! Appear, Desire of nations!

Thine exiles long for home:

Show in the heavens Thy promised sign! Thou Prince and Saviour, come!

Henry Alford 1666

C. E. Kettle

COME to the land of peace,

From shadows come away;

Where all the sounds of weeping cease, And storms no more have sway. 2 Come to the bright and blest,

Gathered from every land;

For here thy soul shall find its rest
Amid the shining band.

3 In this divine abode

Change leaves no saddening trace; Come, trusting spirit, to thy God, Thy holy resting-place.

4 "Come to our peaceful home," The saints and angels say,

"Forsake the world, no longer roam, O wanderer, come away!"

984

Felicia Dorothea Hemans, alt. Briggs' Coll. 1845

S. M.

THERE is no night in heaven;

In that blest world above

3 Where the Lamb on high is seated, By ten thousand voices greeted,

Lord of lords, and King of kings.
Son of Man, they crown, they crown Him,
Son of God, they own, they own Him,
With His name the palace rings.
4 Blessing, honor, without measure,
Heavenly riches, earthly treasure,

Lay we at His blesséd feet.
Poor the praise that now we render:
Loud shall be our voices yonder,

When before His throne we meet.

Horatius Bonar 1866

Work never can bring weariness,
For work itself is love.

2 There is no grief in heaven;
For life is one glad day;
And tears are of those former things
Which all have passed away.

3 There is no sin in heaven;
Behold that blesséd throng
All holy is their spotless robe!
All holy is their song!

4 There is no death in heaven;
For they who gain that shore
Have won their immortality,
And they can die no more.

5 Lord Jesus, be our guide;

O lead us safely on,

Till night and grief and sin and death

Are past, and heaven is won!

Francis Minden Knollys 1859