1.
O paradise! O paradise!
Who doth not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land
Where they that loved are blest.
Refrain:
Where loyal hearts and true
Stand ever in the light.
All rapture through and through,
In God’s most holy sight?
2.
O paradise! O paradise!
The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold.
3.
O paradise! O paradise!
‘Tis weary waiting here;
I long to be where Jesus is,
To feel, to see Him near.
4.
O paradise! O paradise!
I want to sin no more,
I want to be as pure on earth
As on thy spotless shore.
5.
O paradise! O paradise!
I greatly long to see
The special place my dearest Lord
In love prepares for me.
6.
Lord Jesus, King of paradise,
O keep me in Thy love,
And guide me to that happy land
Of perfect rest above.
Catholic Hymn: O Paradise!
Author: Frederick W. Faber (1862)