1695. Gates Ajar

1. What music celestial, what melody clear
Is this which is greeting with rapture my ear?

Refrain
The gates are ajar in the mansions on high
And angels are chanting their songs in the sky.

2. Is Heaven so near me, the hope of my soul,
That over my spirit its music may roll? [Refrain]

3. Oh, bliss without measure, immortal and sweet!
I would that such cadence my voice could repeat! [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: What music celestial, what melody clear
Title: Gates Ajar
Author: Mrs. R. N. Turner (1886)
Refrain First Line: The gates are ajar in the mansions on high
Meter: 11.11.11.11
Language: English
Source: Gates Ajar, by John H. Kurzenknabe (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: J. H. Kurzenknabe & Sons, Publishers, 1885), number 3
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: GATES AJAR
Composer: John H. Kurzenknabe (1886)
Meter: 11.11.11.11
Incipit: 53212 62432 53353
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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