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Our country is Immanuel’s ground;
We seek that promised soil;
The songs of Zion cheer our hearts,
While strangers here we toil.
Oft do our eyes with joy o’erflow,
And oft are bathed in tears;
But only heaven our hopes can raise,
And sin alone, our fears.
We tread the path our Master trod;
We bear the cross he bore;
And every thorn that wounds our feet
His temples pierced before.
The flowers that spring along the road
We scarcely stoop to pluck;
We walk o’er beds of shining ore,
Nor waste one wishful look.
Our pow'rs are oft dissolv'd away
In ecstasies of love;
And while our bodies wander here.
Our souls are fix'd above.
We purge our mortal dross away,
Refining as we run;
And while we die to earth and sense,
Our heaven is here begun.
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LYRICS
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Meter:
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8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Year
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Song #
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| 1854 | # 449 |
MUSIC
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Name:
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BELMONT
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8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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1812
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LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Song #
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Key
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| # 371 | No key | | # 272 | Ab | | # 540 | Ab | | # 154 | Ab | | # 339 | Eb | | # 183 | G | | # 489 | G | | # 663 | G | | # 766 | G | | # 274 | G | | # 285 | G | | # 312 | G | | # 431 | No key | | # 196 | G | | # 522 | G | | # 707 | G |
ALTERNATIVE TUNES
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| 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) | | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.) |
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