9972 | The Cyber Hymnal#9973 | 9974 |
Text: | The Land Of Sunshine |
Author: | Charles Edmunds |
Tune: | [Far away beyond the shadows] |
Composer: | Charles A. Bechter |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Far away beyond the shadows
Of the world, with all its care,
There’s a land where glorious sunlight never dies;
Where the Father has prepared for us
A mansion bright and fair,
Where He summons all His loved ones to the skies.
Refrain:
Fair land of sunshine, bright are thy skies;
To thee with longing I lift mine eyes;
Dear ones are calling, calling to me,
Waiting my coming over the sea.
2 There the Savior sits in glory
On His throne of royal might,
While the angel hosts, adoring, round Him fall;
The triumphant chorus swelling,
from the seraphs pure and bright,
As they hail the gentle Savior "Lord of all." [Refrain]
3 There are many loved ones yonder
Who will bid us welcome home
When our journeying and trials here are o’er;
And our spirits shall be wafted
Safe across the swelling tide
To the golden strand of Heaven’s sunlit shore. [Refrain]
4 We shall gladly hear the message
When He bids us, "Rise and come,"
And we lay our every earthly burden down;
On an angel’s snowy pinions
We shall speed to yon bright home
And will wear the spotless robe and heav’nly crown. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Far away beyond the shadows |
Title: | The Land Of Sunshine |
Author: | Charles Edmunds (1898, alt.) |
Refrain First Line: | Fair land of sunshine, bright are thy skies |
Language: | English |
Source: | Saving Grace by Alonzo Stone and Adam Geibel (Philadelphia: Stone & Bechter Publishers, 1898) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [Far away beyond the shadows] |
Composer: | Charles A. Bechter |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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