Miscellaneous — Old Melodies

O exiled Paradise

No. 1160
Tune PARADISE.
Words Anon.
Music Arranged.
Key A major
Singing key G major
Time 2/4
3 stanzas

Words

O exiled Paradise,O how we long for thee!When wilt thou robe the earth?When plant life's healing tree?O for thy smiling hills,With gush of clear cascade!Forever flowing rills,By living waters made!Thou hast fresh, blooming vales,Where glittering fountains play,And sweet, sequestered dales,Hid in thy groves away.O exiled Paradise,O how we long for thee!When wilt thou robe the earth?When plant life's healing tree?

O for thy fragrant flowersThat bloom through all the year!O for thy rosy bowers,The wilderness to cheer!To thee we shall return,And to Mount Zion come;With songs sing joyfully,And shout the "harvest home,"-Awake the harp and lute,In praises to the KingWho reigns on David's throne,—To him hosannas bring.

Jesus shall ever reign,When his bright kingdom comes;The sun shall be ashamedBefore his dazzling thrones.The moon, confounded, thenShall hide her silver ray,And saints of every ageRejoice in glorious day.O exiled Paradise,O how I long for thee!Robe thou anew the earth,Bring back life's healing tree.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «MISCELLANEOUS—OLD MELODIES.»; hymn number «1160» (large), tune name «PARADISE.» centred over the music (capitals and small capitals), «ARRANGED.» at the right (small capitals); no meter and no reference line are printed. Stanza 1 is interlinear: under system 1 «1.» and a brace holding two lines (the first sung the first time, the second on the repeat of system 1); under system 2 one line; below the bass staff of system 1, in italics, preceded by «D.C.—», the line sung to system 1 after the «D. C.» at the end of system 2 (it repeats the first bracketed line). Stanza 1 below is assembled in the order sung (lines 1–4, the repeat 5–8, system 2 9–12, the D. C. 13–16). «exiled», «Paradise», «smiling», «cascade», «healing», «blooming», «glittering», «fountains» and «sequestered» are set unbroken under two or three notes; «glittering» is sung in two syllables. Stanzas 2 and 3 follow as text (2 in the left column, 3 in the right), numbered «2» and «3» without period, the even lines indented, «Anon.» in italics after stanza 3. The print sets a thin space before «!», «?» and «;» («thee !», «earth ?», «tree ?», «cascade !», «made !», «year !», «cheer !», «come ;», «comes ;»); it is closed up here. Typographic quotation marks around «harvest home,» are written straight; the short dash after the closing quote of that line is reproduced as printed (see uncertainties.md). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.