O Paradise
- Words:
- Frederick W. Faber
- Music:
- Hemy
Sheet music
- 1O Paradise! O Paradise!Who doth not crave for rest?Who would not seek the happy landWhere they that love are blest?Where loyal hearts and trueStand ever in the light,All rapture thru and thruIn God’s most holy sight.
- 2O Paradise! O Paradise!‘Tis weary waiting here;I long to be where Jesus is,To feel, to see Him near:Where loyal hearts and trueStand ever in the light,All rapture thru and thruIn God’s most holy sight.
- 3O Paradise! O Paradise!I want to sin no more;I want to be as pure on earthAs on thy spotless shore:Where loyal hearts and trueStand ever in the light,All rapture thru and thruIn God’s most holy sight.
- 4Lord Jesus, King of Paradise!O keep me in Thy love,And guide me to that happy landOf perfect rest above:Where loyal hearts and trueStand ever in the light,All rapture thru and thruIn God’s most holy sight.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1862, the words are in 469 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are 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.