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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MISSIONARY HYMN, by REGINALD HEBER Poet's Biography First Line: From greenland's icy mountains Last Line: In bliss returns to reign. Variant Title(s): Hymns: Before A Collection Made For The Society For The Propagation Of Gospel Subject(s): Missionaries & Missions | |||
From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden strand, From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain. What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. Can we, whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny? Salvation! O salvation! The joyful sound proclaim, Till each remotest nation Has learned Messiah's Name. Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till like a sea of glory It spreads from pole to pole; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEW ENGLAND, SPRINGTIME by NORMAN DUBIE YOUR MISSION by ELLEN M. HUNTINGTON GATES THE LATTER DAY by THOMAS HASTINGS THE INVITATION (TO TOM HUGHES) by CHARLES KINGSLEY CHANT OF DEPARTURE; A MISSIONARY'S PRAYER by ALFRED BARRETT THE PROPHECY OF ST. ORAN by MATHILDE BLIND ON THE DEATH OF REV. LEVI PARSONS by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD TO A MISSIONARY, WHO ATTENDED ... MEETING OF BIBLE SOCIETY by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD EVENING HYMN by REGINALD HEBER |
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