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GENERAL HYMNS.

O Paradise! O Paradise! I want to sin no more, I want to be as pure on earth As on thy spotless shore. Where loyal hearts,& c.

O Paradise! O Paradise! I greatly long to see The special house my dearest LORD Is furnishing for me. Where loyal hearts,& c.

O Paradise! O Paradise! I feel' twill not be long; Patience! I almost think I hear Faint fragments of thy song.

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" O how amiable are Thy dwellings, Thou LORD of Hosts."

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PLEASANT are Thy courts above In the land of light and love; Pleasant are Thy courts below In the land of sin and woe: O, my spirit longs and faints For the converse of Thy saints, For the brightness of Thy face, For Thy fulness, GOD of grace.

Happy birds that sing and fly Round Thy Altars, O most High; Happier souls that find a rest In a heavenly Father's breast; Like the wandering dove that found No repose on earth around, They can to their ark repair, And enjoy it ever there.