O Paradise!

Text:  Frederick W. Faber  1862
Music:  from Sunday School Hymn Book, S.N.D.  1907
OHT Incipit:  55566 16555 22436

O Paradise! O Paradise!
Who would not crave for rest,
Who would not seek the happy land
Where they that loved are blest.

Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In God's most holy sight,
Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In God's most holy sight.

O Paradise! O Paradise!
The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?

Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In God's most holy sight,
Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In God's most holy sight.

O Paradise! O Paradise!
'Tis weary waiting here;
I long to be where Jesus is,
To feel, to see Him near.

Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In God's most holy sight,
Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In God's most holy sight.

O Paradise! O Paradise!
I greatly long to see
The special place my dearest Lord
is furnishing for me.

Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In God's most holy sight,
Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In God's most holy sight.

O Paradise! O Paradise!
I feel 'twill not be long;
Patience! I almost think I Hear
Faint fragments of thy song.

Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In God's most holy sight,
Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through
In God's most holy sight.

The Ames Hymn Collection

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