"And they sung as it were a new song before the throne..." Revelation 14:3
1 What blissful harmonies above
In vocal thunders swell:
The perfecting of joy and love
What raptured legions tell!
2 The glorious apostolic band,—
Do they in triumph sing?
Do prophets from the Holy Land
Their inspiration bring?
3 Or from the noble army breaks
The deep, adoring strain,
Who won their way from fiery stakes,
And were for conscience slain? —
4 Is it the patriarchal race
That breathe the sacred song?
Or to the heirs of gospel grace
Do the full choirs belong?
5 For each, for all the Word is found
Almighty to atone,
All, all in shining hosts surround
The rainbow-cinctured throne.
6 Peoples, and languages, and tongues,
The choral anthem raise;
To every voice such speech belongs,
The work of heavenly praise.
--Mrs. Josiah Conder (nee Joan Elisabeth Thomas)
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