472 A Song of Heaven and Homeland
[1]
Sometimes I hear strange music
Like none e er heard before
Come floating softly earthward
As thro heav n s open door:
It seems like angel voices
In strains of joy and love
That swell the mighty chorus
Around the throne above.
Sometimes I hear strange music
Like none e er heard before
Come floating softly earthward
As thro heav n s open door:
It seems like angel voices
In strains of joy and love
That swell the mighty chorus
Around the throne above.
[C]
O sweet celestial music
Heard from a land afar;
The song of Heav n and Homeland
Thro doors God leaves ajar!
O sweet celestial music
Heard from a land afar;
The song of Heav n and Homeland
Thro doors God leaves ajar!
[2]
Now soft and low and restful
It floods my soul with peace
As if God s benediction
Bade all earth s troubles cease.
Then grander than the voices
Of wind and wave and sea;
It fills the dome of heaven
With glorious harmony.
Now soft and low and restful
It floods my soul with peace
As if God s benediction
Bade all earth s troubles cease.
Then grander than the voices
Of wind and wave and sea;
It fills the dome of heaven
With glorious harmony.
[C]
O sweet celestial music
Heard from a land afar;
The song of Heav n and Homeland
Thro doors God leaves ajar!
O sweet celestial music
Heard from a land afar;
The song of Heav n and Homeland
Thro doors God leaves ajar!
[3]
This music haunts me ever
Like something heard in dreams;
It seems to catch the cadence
Of heav nly winds and streams.
My heart is filled with rapture
To think some day to come
I ll sing it with the angels;
The song of heav n and home.
This music haunts me ever
Like something heard in dreams;
It seems to catch the cadence
Of heav nly winds and streams.
My heart is filled with rapture
To think some day to come
I ll sing it with the angels;
The song of heav n and home.
[C]
O sweet celestial music
Heard from a land afar;
The song of Heav n and Homeland
Thro doors God leaves ajar!
O sweet celestial music
Heard from a land afar;
The song of Heav n and Homeland
Thro doors God leaves ajar!