O happy land! O happy land!
O happy land! O happy land! Elizabeth Parson* (1812-1873)
This hymn, which is dated 1836, exists in several forms. It was published in John Spencer Curwen*’s Child’s Own Hymn Book (1840), in two 8-line stanzas:
O happy land! O happy land! Where saints and angels dwell; We long to join that glorious band, And all their anthems swell. But every voice in yonder throng On earth has breathed a prayer; No lips untaught may join that song, Or learn the music there.
Thou heavenly Friend! Thou heavenly Friend! Oh hear us when we pray! Now let thy pard’ning grace descend, And take our sins away. Be all our fresh, our youthful days To thy blest service given; Then we shall meet to sing...
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