Reward of Saints

On the high cliffs of Jordan with pleasure I stand

No. 1006
Metre 11s.
Tune FREDERICK.
Words Anon.
Music Geo. Kingsley.
Key F major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 3/4
4 stanzas

Words

On the high cliffs of Jordan with pleasure I stand,And view in perspective the fair promised land,—The land where the ransomed with singing shall come,And enter the kingdom prepared as their home.

'T is there all the nations redeemed by the Lamb,In circles most lovely, his praises proclaim;Through tempests, and sorrows, and perils, they come,To enter those mansions prepared as their home.

All over those peaceful and beautiful plains,The Lord, our Redeemer, in righteousness reigns;His scepter of empire he now doth assume,And kindly doth welcome his followers home.

How blest are those regions, the realms of repose,Through which the fair river of life gently flows!—The regions ambrosial, forever in bloom;—God's own habitation, the saints' happy home!

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «REWARD OF SAINTS.»; hymn number «1006» (large), tune name «FREDERICK. 11s.» centred over the music (capitals and small capitals), «GEO. KINGSLEY.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear, one line under each of the three systems, with «1.» before «On» (see `lyrics_syllables.txt`): «ransomed» is set solid, the other words are hyphenated by syllable; between «land,» and «The» the print has a dash («land, —The»), which belongs to the end of line 2. The reference line «512, 511.» in italic figures stands under the music at the head of the left column (= the words may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 512 REST IN HEAVEN or 511 I LOVE THEE, both 11s.); stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column, numbered «2»–«4» without periods (written «2.»–«4.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book), all four lines of a stanza starting at the same indent. Eight long lines are broken by the column width and their last word(s) turned over on a deeper-indented line (stanza 2: «the / Lamb,», «perils, / they come,», «their / home.»; stanza 3: «righteousness / reigns;», «followers / home.»; stanza 4: «of / repose,», «gently / flows!—», «happy / home!»); each verse is one line here. «Anon.» in italics at the right after stanza 4. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» («proclaim ;», «reigns ;», «flows !—», «bloom ;—», «home !»); it is closed up here. «'T is» and «saints'» with straight apostrophes. A large handwritten note of a later owner («CH 309 To Haydn tune») runs over the turned-over «home!» of stanza 4 and the header of hymn 1007; it is not part of the print. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.