Bible Songs — Reward of Saints

Immanuel's Land

The sands of time are sinking

No. 1349
Tune IMMANUEL'S LAND.
Words Annie R. Cousin.
Music Melody by Mrs. Florence L. McCallum. Arranged.
Key E-flat major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 6/8
3 stanzas

Words

The sands of time are sinking,The dawn of heaven breaks;The summer morn I've sighed for,—The fair, sweet morn, awakes.Dark, dark has been the midnight;But dayspring is at hand:And glory, glory dwellethIn Immanuel's land,And glory, glory dwellethIn Immanuel's land.

I've wrestled on to'ard heaven,'Gainst storm and wind and tide;Now, like a weary trav'lerThat leaneth on his guide,Amid the shades of evening,While sinks life's ling'ring sand,I hail the glory dawning,From Immanuel's land,I hail the glory dawning,From Immanuel's land.

Deep waters crossed life's pathway,The hedge of thorns was sharp;Now these lie all behind me;—O for a well-tuned harp!O for the "hallelujah,"With yon triumphant band!Who sing where glory dwelleth,In Immanuel's land,Who sing where glory dwelleth,In Immanuel's land.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1349» (large, left), title «IMMANUEL'S LAND.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph in one line, «"The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose, * * and they shall see the glory of the Lord."—Isa. 35 : 1, 2.» (two asterisks for the omitted words; old-style figures); then «ANNIE R. COUSIN.» at the left (words) and «MELODY BY MRS. FLORENCE L. MCCALLUM. ARRANGED.» at the right (music), capitals and small capitals («McCallum» with a small-capital c). No meter, no tune name other than the title, no reference line, no chorus and no running head. The three stanzas are interlinear, three lines between the staves of every system, numbered «1.»–«3.» in system 1; each stanza is ten verse lines (7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 + the last two lines again), given here as the verse lines of the poem. Under the music, centred: «Copyrighted 1886 by F. E. Belden.» and the page number «559». Syllable hyphens are joined («sink-ing», «heav-en», «sum-mer» printed «summer», «a-wakes», «mid-night», «day-spring» printed «dayspring», «glo-ry», «dwell-eth», «Im-man-uel's», «wres-tled», «trav'-ler», «lean-eth» printed «leaneth», «A-mid», «even-ing», «ling-'ring», «dawn-ing», «wa-ters», «path-way», «be-hind», «hal-le-lu-jah», «tri-um-phant»); «well-tuned» keeps its own hyphen. The print sets a thin space before «;», «:» and «!» («breaks ;», «hand :», «tide ;», «sharp ;», «harp !»); it is closed up here; quotation marks and apostrophes are written straight. Words set closed up by the compositor are spaced («I'vesighedfor,—The fair,sweetmorn,a-wakes.», «midtheshadesof», «whereglory»). In stanza 2 the last «Immanuel's» is printed «Im - manuel's» (no hyphen between «man» and «uel's»). Spelling and punctuation are the print's («to'ard», «'Gainst», «trav'ler», «ling'ring», «has been», «sighed for,—», «behind me;—»).