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<h2>TO REALMS OF GLORY</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;There remaineth&#8230;a rest to the people of God.&#8221; Hebrews 4:9</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_w_a_wallin_jo.gif" alt="Johan Olaf Wallin (1779-1839)" width="116.666666666667" height="166.666666666667"></td>
<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_a_wallin_jo.html" target="_blank">Johan Olof Wallin</a> (1779-1839); translated from Swedish to English by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_f_o_foss_cw.html" target="_blank">Claude William Foss</a> (1855-1935).
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Eisenach,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_c_schein_jh.html" target="_blank">Johann Hermann Schein</a>, 1628; harmony by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_a_bach_js.html" target="_blank">Johann Sebastian Bach</a> (1685-1750) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_e_eisenach.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>To realms of glory in the skies<br>
I see my Lord returning,<br>
While I, a stranger in the earth,<br>
For heaven am ever yearning.<br>
&#8217;Mid toil and sorrow here I roam,<br>
Far from my heavenly Father&#8217;s home.</p>
<p>Yet visions of the promised land<br>
By faith my soul obtaineth;<br>
There shall I dwell forevermore<br>
Where Christ in glory reigneth;<br>
In mansions of that bright abode,<br>
The city of the living God.</p>
<p>In that blest city is no night,<br>
Nor any pain or weeping;<br>
There is my treasure, there my heart,<br>
Safe in the Savior&#8217;s keeping;<br>
In heaven, my risen Lord, with Thee<br>
May all my thought and living be.</p>
<p>How bless&egrave;d shall those servants be,<br>
O Lord, at Thy returning,<br>
Whose hearts are waiting still for Thee,<br>
Whose lamps are trimmed and burning;<br>
Them wilt Thou take to dwell with Thee<br>
In joy and peace eternally.</p>
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