“WE SPEAK OF THE REALMS OF THE BLEST.”
Mrs. Elizabeth Mills, wife of the Hon. Thomas Mills, M.P., was born at Stoke Newington, Eng., 1805. She was one of the brief voices that sing one song and die. This hymn was the only note of her minstrelsy, and it has outlived her by more than three-quarters of a century. She wrote it about three weeks before her decease in Finsbury Place, London, April 21, 1839, at the age of twenty-four.
We speak of the land of the blest,
A country so bright and so fair,
And oft are its glories confest,
But what must it be to be there!
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We speak of its freedom from sin,
From sorrow, temptation and care,
From trials without and within,
But what must it be to be there!