No shadow dims it, and no rain-cloud lowers;
No broken sunshine there:
One everlasting stretch of azure pours
Its stainless splendor o’er those sinless shores:
For there Jehovah shines with heavenly ray,
And Jesus reigns, dispensing endless day.
3 The dwellers there are not like those of earth,
No mortal stain they bear;
And yet they seem of kindred blood and birth;
Whence and how came they there?