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NO NIGHT IN HEAVEN

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 13, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 11, No. 26.

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NO NIGHT IN HEAVEN.

"And there shall be no night there." Rev. xxii, 5.
No night shall be in heaven—no gathering gloom Shall o'er that glorious landscape ever come. No tears shall fall in sadness o'er those flowers That breathe their fragrance through celestial bowers.
No night shall be in heaven—no dreadful hour Of mental darkness, or the Templer's power. Across those skies no envious cloud shall roll, To dim the sunlight of the enraptured soul.
No night shall be in heaven. Forbid to sleep, These eyes no more their mournful vigils keep; Their fountains dried—their tears all wiped away; They gaze undazzled on eternal day.
No night shall be in heaven—no sorrow's reign— No secret anguish—no corporeal pain— No shivering limbs—no burning fever there— No soul's eclipse—no winter of despair.
No night shall be in heaven—but endless noon; No fast declining sun nor waning moon; But there the Lamb shall yield perpetual light, 'Mid pastures green, and waters ever bright.
No night shall be in heaven—no darkened room, No bed of death, nor silence of the tomb; But breezes ever fresh, with love and truth, Shall brace the frame of an immortal youth.
No night shall be in heaven! But night is here— The night of sorrow—and the night of fear. I mourn the ills that now my steps attend, And shrink from others that may yet impend.
No night shall be in heaven! O had I faith To rest in what the faithful Witness saith— That faith should make these hideous phantoms flee, And leave no night, henceforth, on earth to me.—Sel.