Bible Songs — Reward of Saints

Heaven at Last

Angel voices sweetly singing,

No. 1364
Tune HEAVEN AT LAST.
Words Horatius Bonar, D. D.
Music W. J. Kirkpatrick.
Key E-flat major
Singing key D♭ major
Time 4/4
5 stanzas

Words

Angel voices sweetly singing,Echoes thro' the blue dome ringing,News of wondrous gladness bringing;Ah, 'tis heav'n at last!

REFRAIN

Heav'n at last, heav'n at last;O, the joyful story of heav'n at last!Heav'n at last, heav'n at last;Endless, boundless glory,In heav'n at last.

On the jasper threshold standing,Like a pilgrim safely landing,See the strange bright scene expanding;Ah, 'tis heav'n at last!

Softest voices, silver pealing,Freshest fragrance, spirit-healing,Happy hymns around us stealing;Ah, 'tis heav'n at last!

Not a tear-drop ever falleth,Not a pleasure ever palleth,Song to song forever calleth;Ah, 'tis heav'n at last!

Christ, himself, the living splendor,Christ the sunlight, mild and tender;Praises to the Lamb we render;Ah, 'tis heav'n at last!

About this hymn

As printed As printed on p. 574 (PDF 575): hymn number «1364» (large) at the left, title «HEAVEN AT LAST.» centred (condensed capitals and small capitals); under it the epigraph in two lines of smaller roman (given below; the thin spaces before «;» and «:» and around the colon of the reference closed up); «HORATIUS BONAR, D. D.» (the words) at the left and «W. J. KIRKPATRICK.» (the music) at the right, capitals and small capitals; «From "Songs of Triumph," by permission.» centred under the music, folio «574» below it. No meter, no tune name other than the title, no reference line. The five stanzas are interlinear under the treble staff of systems 1–2, numbered «1.»–«5.» in system 1; the REFRAIN (systems 3–4) is printed once and is sung after every stanza. Each printed line of a stanza carries three verse lines (the fourth, «Ah, 'tis heav'n at last!», ends the line of system 2); they are given here one verse line per line, by the rhymes and the capitals that open them. Words divided under the notes are joined («an - gel», «voic - es», «sweet - ly», «sing - ing», «ech - oes», «ring - ing», «won - drous», «glad - ness», «bring-ing», «jas - per», «stand-ing», «pil - grim», «safe - ly», «land - ing», «ex - pand- ing», «soft - est», «sil - ver», «peal - ing», «fresh - est», «hap - py», «a - round», «steal - ing», «ev - er», «fall - eth», «pleas - ure», «pall - eth», «for - ev - er», «call - eth», «him - self», «liv - ing», «splen-dor», «sun - light», «ten - der», «prais - es», «ren - der»; refrain «joy - ful», «sto - ry», «End- less», «bound-less», «glo - ry»); «spir - it-» at the end of system 1 and «heal - ing,» at the start of system 2 are written «spirit-healing,»; «tear-drop» keeps its printed hyphen (see uncertainties.md). Spelling («thro'», «'tis», «heav'n», «splendor»), capitals and punctuation are the print's. Ink marks of a reader over some words of the epigraph are not part of the print (recorded in uncertainties.md).