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St. Giles 7676

My Soul, There is a Country

1. My soul, there is

Ob 3 2664

stands a wing-ed sen

JOHN STAINER

a country Far, far beyond the stars, Where be

Rest comes at length; though life be long and dreary,
The day must dawn, and darksome night be past;

Faith's journey ends in welcome to the weary,

And heav'n, the heart's true home, will come at last.

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Angels! sing on, your faithful watches keeping,
Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above;
Till morning's joy shall end the night of weeping,
And life's long shadows break in cloudless love.
Angels of Jesus, Angels of light,

Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night! Amen.

FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER

From Egypt Lately Come

1. From E-gypt late-ly come, Where death and darkness reign, We seek our

finished, all is fin-ished, Their fight with death and sin:

pen wide the golden gates, And let the victors in. A-men.

In thee no sor-row can be found, Nor grief, nor care, nor toil. A-men.

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Alleluia, Song of Gladness

Dulce Carmen 878787

EDWARD JOHN HOPKINS

1. Al-le - lu - ia, song of glad - ness, Voice of joy that can-not

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die;

Alle lu - ia is the

an-them Ev - er dear

to choirs on high;

In the house of God a bid - ing Thus they sing e ter nal- ly. A-men.

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Alleluia thou resoundest,

True Jerusalem and free;
Alleluia, joyful mother,

All thy children sing with thee;
But by Babylon's sad waters
Mourning exiles now are we.

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Alleluia cannot always

Be our song while here below:

Alleluia our transgressions

Make us for a while forego:

For the solemn time is coming

When our tears for sin must flow.

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Therefore in our hymns we pray Thee,
Grant us, blessed Trinity,

At the last to keep Thine Easter
In our home beyond the sky;
There to Thee forever singing
Alleluia joyfully. Amen.

Tr. JOHN MASON NEALE