Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VII. Death: Immortality: Heaven | | Paradise | | Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) |
| | | O PARADISE, O Paradise, | |
| Who doth not crave for rest, | |
| Who would not seek the happy land | |
| Where they that loved are blest? | |
| Where loyal hearts and true | 5 |
| Stand ever in the light, | |
| All rapture through and through, | |
| In God’s most holy sight. | |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | |
| The world is growing old; | 10 |
| Who would not be at rest and free | |
| Where love is never cold? | |
| Where loyal hearts and true | |
| Stand ever in the light, | |
| All rapture through and through, | 15 |
| In God’s most holy sight. | |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | |
| Wherefore doth death delay?— | |
| Bright death, that is the welcome dawn | |
| Of our eternal day; | 20 |
| Where loyal hearts and true | |
| Stand ever in the light, | |
| All rapture through and through, | |
| In God’s most holy sight. | |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | 25 |
| ’T is weary waiting here; | |
| I long to be where Jesus is, | |
| To feel, to see him near; | |
| Where loyal hearts and true | |
| Stand ever in the light, | 30 |
| All rapture through and through, | |
| In God’s most holy sight. | |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | |
| I want to sin no more, | |
| I want to be as pure on earth | 35 |
| As on thy spotless shore; | |
| Where loyal hearts and true | |
| Stand ever in the light, | |
| All rapture through and through, | |
| In God’s most holy sight. | 40 |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | |
| I greatly long to see | |
| The special place my dearest Lord | |
| Is destining for me; | |
| Where loyal hearts and true | 45 |
| Stand ever in the light, | |
| All rapture through and through, | |
| In God’s most holy sight. | |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | |
| I feel ’t will not be long; | 50 |
| Patience! I almost think I hear | |
| Faint fragments of thy song; | |
| Where loyal hearts and true | |
| Stand ever in the light, | |
| All rapture through and through, | 55 |
| In God’s most holy sight. | | | | |
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