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Text:From Greenland's Icy Mountains
Author:Reginald Heber
Tune:MISSIONARY
Composer:Lowell Mason

313. From Greenland's Icy Mountains

1 From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand;
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.

2 What tho' the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle--
Tho' ev'ry prospect pleases,
And only man is vile!
In vain, with lavish kindness,
The gifts of God are strown;
The heathen, in their blindness,
Bow down to wood and stone.

3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high--
Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?
Salvation! O salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till earth's remotest nation
Has heard Messiah's name.

Text Information
First Line: From Greenland's icy mountains
Title: From Greenland's Icy Mountains
Author: Reginald Heber
Language: English
Publication Date: 1935
Tune Information
Name: MISSIONARY
Composer: Lowell Mason
Key: E♭ Major



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