Heaven
Hark, Hark, My Soul!
- Words:
- Frederick W. Faber, 1854. Arranged and alt. by Mike Hosken, 2014.
- Music:
- 'Finlandia' Jean Sibelius, 1899.
- Setting:
- from Jean Sibelius, 1900.
- Metre:
- 10 10 10 10 10 10
- 1Hark! hark, my soul! angelic songs are swelling O'er earth's green fields and ocean's wave‐ beat shore:How sweet the truth those blessèd strains are telling Of that new life when sin shall be no more!Onward we go, for still we hear them sing,"Come, weary souls, for Jesus bids you come";
- 2And through the dark, its echoes sweetly ringing,The music of the Gospel leads us home.Far, far away, like bells at ev'ning pealing,The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea,And laden souls, by thousands meekly stealing,Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.
- 3Faith's journeys end in welcome to the weary,And Heav'n, the heart's true home will come at last.Angels, sing on, your faithful watches keeping,Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above;Till morning's joy shall end the night of weeping,And life's long shadows break in cloudless love.
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- Written in 1854, the words are in 667 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Finlandia, is in 381 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.