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Text: | Hills of the North, Rejoice |
Author: | Charles E. Oakley |
Tune: | LITTLE CORNARD |
Composer: | Martin Shaw |
1 Hills of the North, rejoice;
River and mountain spring,
Hark to the advent voice;
Valley and low land, sing;
Though absent long, your Lord is nigh;
He judgment brings and victory.
2 Isles of the Southern seas,
Deep in your coral caves
Pent be each warring breeze,
Lulled be your restless waves:
He comes to reign with boundless sway,
And makes your wastes His great highway.
3 Lands of the East, awake,
Soon shall your sons be free;
The sleep of ages break,
And rise to liberty.
On your far hills, long cold and gray,
Has dawned the everlasting day.
4 Shores of the utmost West,
Ye that have waited long,
Unvisited, unblest,
Break forth to swelling song;
High raise the note, that Jesus died,
Yet lives and reigns, the Crucified.
5 Shout, while ye journey home;
Songs be in every mouth;
Lo, from the North we come,
From East, and West, and South.
City of God, the bond are free,
We come to live and reign in thee!
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Hills of the North, rejoice |
Title: | Hills of the North, Rejoice |
Author: | Charles E. Oakley (1870) |
Meter: | 6. 6. 6. 6. 8. 8. |
Publication Date: | 1955 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Brotherhood; Church, The: Church Triumphant; Missions(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LITTLE CORNARD |
Composer: | Martin Shaw (1915) |
Meter: | 6. 6. 6. 6. 8. 8. |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Copyright: | Music copyright, 1915, by J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd. Used by permission. |