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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>BEULAH LAND</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“You will be called Hepzibah, and your land Beulah.” Isaiah 62:4</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_s_t_stites_ep.jpg" alt="Edgar Page Stites (1836-1921)" width="126" height="176.666666666667"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_t_stites_ep.html" target="_blank">Edgar Page Stites</a>, 1876.
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<p><em>Music:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_w_sweney_jr.html" target="_blank">John Robson Sweney</a> </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_b_beulah2.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </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>Stites wrote this hymn while attending a Methodist camp meeting in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. John Sweney was the camp song leader.</td>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_s_w_sweney_jr.jpg" alt="John Robson Sweney (1837-1899)" width="131.333333333333" height="182"></td>
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<p>I’ve reached the land of corn and wine,<br>
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And all its riches freely mine;<br>
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Here shines undimmed one blissful day,<br>
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For all my night has passed away.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p class="refrain">O Beulah Land, sweet Beulah Land,<br>
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As on thy highest mount I stand,<br>
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I look away across the sea,<br>
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Where mansions are prepared for me,<br>
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And view the shining glory shore,<br>
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My heaven, my home forever more!</p>
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<p>My Savior comes and walks with me,<br>
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And sweet communion here have we;<br>
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He gently leads me by His hand,<br>
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For this is heaven’s border land.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>A sweet perfume upon the breeze,<br>
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Is borne from ever eternal trees,<br>
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And flowers, that never fading grow<br>
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Where streams of life forever flow.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>The zephyrs seem to float to me,<br>
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Sweet sounds to heaven’s melody,<br>
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As angels with the white robed throng<br>
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Join in the sweet redemption song.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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