How sweet to reflect on the joys that await me

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How sweet to reflect on the joys that await me

Author: W. C. Tillou
Tune: EDEN OF LOVE (51127)
Published in 128 hymnals

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1 How sweet to reflect on those joys that await me
In yon blissful region, the haven of rest;
Where bright, holy angels with welcome shall greet me,
And lead me to mansions prepared for the blest.
Encircled with light, and with glory enshrouded,
My happiness perfect, my mind's sky unclouded,
I'll bathe in the ocean of pleasure unbounded,
And range with delight through the Eden of love.

2 Then hail, blessed state! hail, ye songsters of glory!
Ye harpers of bliss, soon I'll meet you above,
And join your full choir in rehearsing the story,
Salvation from sorrow, through Jesus' love.
Though prisoned in earth, yet by anticipation,
Already my soul feels a sweet prelibation
Of joys that await me when freed from probation;
My heart's now in heaven, the Eden of love.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #1181

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First Line:	How sweet to reflect on the joys that await me
Author:	W. C. Tillou
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

How sweet to reflect on the joys that await me, p. 1572, i. We have found this hymn in the 2nd vol. of Joshua Leavitt's Christian Lyre (N.Y., 1st vol., 1830; 2nd in 1831, No. 78). It is entitled "The Eden of Love." Written by W. C. Tillou, and set to a tune composed for it by John J. Hicks. We know of no reference to Tillou beyond this. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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