The Hymnal and Order of Service ‎#663

663. 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 blest:

Refrain:
Where loyal hearts and true
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture thro' and thro'
In God's most holy sight?

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

3 O Paradise! O Paradise!
We long to sin no more;
We long to be as pure on earth
As on thy spotless shore. [Refrain]

4 O Paradise! O Paradise!
We shall not wait for long;
E'en now the loving ear may catch
Faint fragments of thy song. [Refrain]

5 Lord Jesus, King of Paradise,
O keep us in Thy love,
And guide us to that happy land
Of perfect rest above. [Refrain]

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: O Paradise! O Paradise!
• Title: O Paradise! O Paradise!
• Author: Frederick William Faber
• Refrain First Line: Where loyal hearts and true Stand ever in the light
• Meter: 8 6, 8 6, 6 6, 6 6.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1937
• Topic: Children's Hymns; Trinity, Twenty-fourth Sunday; Heaven: Yearning for

Tune Information

• Name: PARADISE
• Composer: Joseph Barnby (1866)
• Meter: 8 6, 8 6, 6 6, 6 6.
• Key: E♭ Major