Poems (Edwards)/The Unseen Bliss of Heaven
THE UNSEEN BLISS OF HEAVEN.
As fades the light of parting day,
So friendship often dies,
And love is like a meteor's ray
That lights the azure skies.
So friendship often dies,
And love is like a meteor's ray
That lights the azure skies.
But eye hath never seen the bliss
That shall in Heaven be ours,
Sight has not reached its living strains,
Nor scanned its fadeless bowers.
That shall in Heaven be ours,
Sight has not reached its living strains,
Nor scanned its fadeless bowers.
Ear hath not heard of all the joys
That shall surround us there,
Mind, human mind, has not conceived
Of aught so bright and fair.
That shall surround us there,
Mind, human mind, has not conceived
Of aught so bright and fair.
O! then how lightly on our hearts
Should earthly trials fall,
Since God has promised, in his word,
A recompense for all.
Should earthly trials fall,
Since God has promised, in his word,
A recompense for all.
Let us, as christian pilgrims press
Still onward in the race,
'Till we obtain those joys unseen,
In that delightful place.
Still onward in the race,
'Till we obtain those joys unseen,
In that delightful place.
Let us press onward to the skies,
And when life's toils are passed,
O! may we see our Father's face,
And dwell with him at last.
And when life's toils are passed,
O! may we see our Father's face,
And dwell with him at last.