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<h2>O PARADISE!</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” Revelation 2:7</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_f_a_faber_fw.jpg" alt="Frederick William Faber, 1860" width="134.666666666667" height="192"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_f_a_faber_fw.html" target="_blank">Frederick William Faber</a> (1814-1863); last stanza by the compilers of <em>Hymns Ancient and Modern</em>. First published in 1862.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Paradise,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_d_y_dykes_jb.html" target="_blank">John Bacchus Dykes</a>, 1868 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_p_paradise.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>O paradise! O paradise!<br>
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Who doth not crave for rest?<br>
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Who would not seek the happy land<br>
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Where they that loved are blest.<br>
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<p class="refrain">Where loyal hearts and true<br>
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Stand ever in the light.<br>
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All rapture through and through,<br>
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In God’s most holy sight?</p>
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<p>O paradise! O paradise!<br>
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The world is growing old;<br>
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Who would not be at rest and free<br>
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Where love is never cold.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Refrain</p>
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<p>O paradise! O paradise!<br>
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’Tis weary waiting here;<br>
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I long to be where Jesus is,<br>
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To feel, to see Him near.</p>
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<p>O paradise! O paradise!<br>
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I want to sin no more,<br>
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I want to be as pure on earth<br>
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As on thy spotless shore.</p>
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<p>O paradise! O paradise!<br>
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I greatly long to see<br>
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The special place my dearest Lord<br>
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In love prepares for me.</p>
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<p>Lord Jesu, King of paradise,<br>
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O keep me in Thy love,<br>
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And guide me to that happy land<br>
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Of perfect rest above.</p>
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