Reward of Saints

There is a happy land

No. 1000
Metre P. M.
Tune WORLD TO COME.
Words Anon.
Music Unknown.
Key E major
Singing key D major
Time 2/4
3 stanzas

Words

There is a happy land,Far, far away,Where saints in glory stand,Bright, bright as day.O! how they sweetly sing,"Worthy is our Saviour King;"Loud let his praises ring,Praise, praise for aye.

Come to that happy land,Come, come away;Why will ye doubting stand?Why still delay?O! we shall happy be,From all sin and sorrow free;Lord, we shall live with thee,Blest, blest for aye.

Bright in that happy landBeams every eye;Kept by a Father's hand,Love cannot die;Then shall thy kingdom come,Saints shall have a glorious home;And, brighter than the sun,Reign, reign for aye.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «REWARD OF SAINTS.»; hymn number «1000» (large), tune name «WORLD TO COME. P. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «UNKNOWN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); no reference line. Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves: under system 1, after «1.», two lines in braces sung to the repeated first half of the tune — «{ There is a hap - py land, Far, far a - way, / Where saints in glo - ry stand, Bright, bright as day. }» — then «O! how they sweetly sing,»; under system 2 «"Wor-thy is our Saviour King;" Loud let his prais-es ring, Praise, praise for aye.» («sweetly» and «Saviour» set solid over two notes each). Stanzas 2–3 are printed as text in the left column under the music, numbered «2», «3» without periods (written «2.», «3.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book); lines 2, 4 and 8 of each stanza are indented, and stanza 1 is laid out the same way here. «Anon.» in italics, right-aligned, after stanza 3. The print sets a thin space before «;», «?» and «!» («away ;», «stand ?», «O !», «King ;"») and inside the quotation marks; it is closed up here, and the curly quotation marks and apostrophes are written straight («"Worthy … King;"», «Father's»). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.