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HEAVEN AT LAST

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 18, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 30, No. 1.

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HEAVEN AT LAST.

“Denique Coelum.”—Old Motto.
ANGEL-VOICES sweetly singing, Echoes through the blue dome ringing, News of wondrous gladness bringing; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
Now, beneath us all the grieving, All the wounded spirit’s heaving, All the woe of hopes deceiving; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
Sin for ever left behind us, Earthly visions cease to blind us, Fleshly fetters cease to bind us; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
On the jasper threshold standing, Like a pilgrim safely landing, See, the strange bright scene expanding, Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
What a city! what a glory! Far beyond the brightest story Of the ages old and hoary; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
Softest voices, silver-pealing, Freshest fragrance, spirit healing, Happy hymns around us stealing; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
Gone the vanity and folly, Gone the dark and melancholy, Come the joyous and the holy; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
Not a broken blossom yonder, Not a link can snap asunder, Stay’d the tempest, sheathed the thunder; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
Not a tear-drop ever falleth, Not a pleasure ever palleth, Song to song for ever calleth; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
Christ himself the living splendor, Christ the sunlight mild and tender; Praises to the Lamb we render; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
Now at length the veil is rended, Now the pilgrimage is ended, And the saints their thrones ascended; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!
Broken death’s dread hands that bound us, Life and victory around us; Christ, the King, himself hath crown’d us; Ah, ’tis Heaven at last!