Christ My Song - 2446
O Paradise! O Paradise!
(Frederick William Faber/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
O Paradise! O Paradise!
1. O Paradise! O Paradise!
Who doth not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land,
where they that loved are blessed;
where loyal hearts, and true,
stand ever in the light,
all rapture through and through,
in God's most holy sight? PDF - Midi
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. O Paradise! O Paradise!
I want to sin no more;
I want to be as pure on earth
as on thy spotless shore;
where loyal hearts, and true,
stand ever in the light,
all rapture through and through,
in God's most holy sight?
5. O Paradise! O Paradise!
Wherefore doth death delay? –
bright death, that is the welcome dawn
of our eternal day;
where loyal hearts, and true,
stand ever in the light,
all rapture through and through,
in God's most holy sight?
Frederick William Faber, in: Philip Schaff: Christ in Song, 1870, 530-531.