← The Half has Never been Told Hymns and Tunes (1888) · No. 1350

The Half has Never been Told

I'll sing you a song of a city

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I'll sing you a song of a cityWhich mortals have never yet seen,I'll sing you a song of a countryWhose valleys forever are green;Whose murmuring streamlets and fountainsThe ransomed ones soon shall behold,The glorious light of whose mountainsNo tongue has ever yet told.

Chorus.

The half has never been told,The half has never been told;O, wonderful kingdom of glory!The half has never been told.

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I'll sing of those beautiful mansionsThe Saviour has gone to prepare;I'll sing of the noontide of gloryThat lingers eternally there;I'll sing of life's tree and life's river,I'll sing of the streets of pure gold:Tho' thousands have sung of these glories,The half has never been told.

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I'll sing you a song of the loved onesWe'll meet on those beautiful plains,Where sorrow and death cannot enter,Where friendship forevermore reigns;I'll sing of the life that's unending,Of songs that shall never grow old,Whose heavenly harmonies blending,Are robed in beauty untold.

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But hark! there is something more preciousThan all of these pleasures so rare,—The hope of beholding my Saviour,—The promise of knowing him thereWho trod the rough pathway before usThose portals of bliss to unfold—Who suffered and died to restore us:His love can never be told.