The Better Land.

1There is a land mine eye hath seen,

In visions of enraptured thought

So bright that all which spreads between

Is with its radiant glory fraught;--

2A land upon whose blissful shore

There rests no shadow, falls no stain;

There those who meet shall part no more,

And those long parted meet again.

3Its skies are not like earthly skies,