The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/I Heard a Sound of Voices

by Godfrey Thring(Patmos by Henry Johnson Storer)

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I Heard a Sound of Voices

(PATMOS 7, 6, 8, 6, 7, 6, 8, 6)

Godfrey Thring,, 1885

Henry J. Storer, 1891

1. I heard a sound of voi - ces
   A - round the great white throne,
   With harp- ers harp - ing on their harps
   To him who sat there -on;
   Sal- va - tion, glo - ry, hon- or,'
   I heard the song a - rise,
   As through the courts of heaven it rolled
   In wondrous har - mo - nies.
   
2. I saw the ho - ly cit - y,
   The New Je - ru - sa - lem,
   Come down from heaven, a bride a- domed
   With jew - elled di - a - dem :
   The flood of crys - tal wa ters
   Flowed down the gold - en street;
   And na-tions brought their hon - ors there,
   And laid them at her feet.
   
3. And there no sun was need - ed,
   Nor moon to shine by night,
   God's glo - ry did en - light - en all,
   The Lamb him - self, the light ;
   And there his serv - ants serve him,
   And, life's long bat - tle o'er,
   En - throned with him, their Sav - iour, King,
   They reign for ev - er - more.
   
4. O great andglo-rious vis - ion!
   The Lamb up - on his throne;
   O won - drous sight for man to see !
   The Sav - iour with his own :
   To drink the liv - ing wa ters
   And stand up - on the shore,
   Where neith - er sor - row, sin, nor death
   Shall ev - er en - ter in.A-men.