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Who would not seek the happy land, Where they that loved are blest?

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2 Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress, and their Might;
Thou, Lord, their Captain in the well-fought fight;
Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light. Alleluia!

3 O, may Thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,

Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,

And win with them the victors' crown of gold. Alleluia!

4 O blest communion, fellowship divine!

We feebly struggle: they in glory shine;

Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine. Alleluia!

5 And when the strife is fierce, the warfare long,

Steals on the ear the distant triumph-song,

And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong. Alleluia!

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On Jordan's storm -y banks I stand, And cast a wish ful

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fair and happy land, To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions

lie. A-MEN.

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ALFORD 7, 6, 8, 6, D.

John B. Dykes

Ten thou-sand times ten thousand

In sparkling rai-ment bright, The armies of the

ransomed saints Throng up the steeps of light: 'Tis finished, all is fin-ished,

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MUNICH 7, 6, D.

Johann G. Störl's Choralbuch, harmonized by Mendelssohn

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Word of God in car - nate, O Wis-dom from on high, O Truth

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