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COMING GLORY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 4.

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COMING GLORY.

By Eliza H. Morton

“Eye hath not seen; ear hath not heard.”
The fairest landscapes eye hath seen, The greenest dells and hills, The freshest meadows, mossiest rocks, The clearest brooks and rills, Are only shadows, dim and faint, Of what this earth will be When curse is lifted in the morn Of glad eternity.
The grandest music ear hath heard, The deepest organ-peal, The softest lay by singer sung, The chords we hear and feel, Are only echoes of the song The angels sing above, Faint preludes of the grand “new song,” Whose notes are endless love.
The loftiest thoughts conceived by mind, The sweetest dreams by night, The deepest longings of the soul, The loveliest visions bright, Are only far-off glimmering gleams Of glory yet to dawn, When life springs up from “mother earth” In resurrection morn.
No eye hath seen, no ear hath heard That shining angel band; No mind conceived, no tongue described The beauties of that land: But soon our eyes will see the King, And tears be wiped away; Our ears will catch the anthem grand, And night be lost in day.
O songs that never, never cease! O sunlight ever fair! O city paved with glittering gold! O freedom from all care! The thought-worn brow will wear a crown, The saints be ever blest, Life’s waters cool the burning brain, The weary feet find rest.
ELIZA H. MORTON.
Allen’s Corner, Me.