Heaven by V. O. Edson

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 14, 1864

Heaven.

By V. O. Edson

Oh, Heaven, sweet Heaven! I long to be there, And join in those beauties and glories most fair. There free from temptation and sorrow and pain, I long with the King in his beauty to reign.

I'm weary of earth with its sorrows and strife; 'Tis full of temptation, with danger 'tis rife; Oh, Heaven, sweet Heaven! my soul longs for thee; Sweet rest of the faithful, fair land of the free.

Oh, Heaven, sweet Heaven! the saints' happy home; No longer they pilgrims and strangers shall roam. I long in thy beautiful bowers to dwell, And help the glad song of redemption to swell.

T'is there we shall meet, with the friends we hold dear, Who long have been parted, while sojourning here. Oh, Heaven sweet Heaven! friends meet on thy shore, Where parting, and sighing, and death, are no more.

V. O. EDSON.

Palermo, N. Y.