From Greenland's Icy Mountain

Words:
Reginald Heber
Music:
Lowell Mason

Sheet music

  1. 1From Greenland’s icy mountains,From India’s coral strand;Where Afric’s sunny fountainsRoll down their golden sand;From many an ancient river,From many a palmy plain,They call us to deliverTheir land from error’s chain.
  2. 2What though the spicy breezesBlow soft o’er Ceylon’s isle;Though ev’ry prospect pleases,And only man is vile!In vain, with lavish kindness,The gifts of God are strown;The heathen, in their blindness,Bow down to wood and stone.
  3. 3Shall we, whose souls are lightedWith wisdom from on high,Shall we to men benightedThe lamp of life deny?Salvation! O salvation!The joyful sound proclaim,Till earth’s remotest nationHas heard Messiah’s Name.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1819, the words are in 1,761 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

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