Calvary Songs ‎#149

149. The Land to Which We Go

1 Life has many a pleasant hour,
Many a bright and cloudless day;
Singing bird and smiling flower,
Scatter sunbeams on our way;
But the sweetest blossoms grow
In the land to which we go.

2 Earth has many a cool retreat,
Many a spot to memory dear;
Oft we find our weary feet
Ling'ring by some fountain clear;
Yet the purest waters flow
In the land to which we go.

3 Like a cloud that floats away,
Like the early morning dew,
Here the fairest things decay;
There, are pleasures ever new.
Only joy the heart will know
In the land to which we go.

4 'Tis the Christian's promised land;
There is everlasting day;
There a Saviour's loving hand
Wipes the mourner's tears away;
Oh! the rapture we shall know
In the land to which we go.

Text Information

• First Line: Life has many a pleasant hour
• Title: The Land to Which We Go
• Author: Fanny Crosby
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1875

Tune Information

• Name: [Life has many a pleasant hour]
• Composer: Wm. F. Sherwin (1872)