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  1. 1Jesus my all to heav'n is gone,
  2. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise,
  3. He whom I fixed my hope upon,
  4. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise.
  5. To that land, to that land to that land I am bound,
  6. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise.
  7. 2His track I see and I pursue,
  8. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise,
  9. The narrow way till Him I view,
  10. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise.
  11. To that land, to that land to that land I am bound,
  12. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise.
  13. 3The way the holy prophets went,
  14. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise,
  15. The road that leads from banishment,
  16. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise.
  17. To that land, to that land to that land I am bound,
  18. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise.
  19. 4The King's highway of holiness,
  20. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise,
  21. I'll go for all His paths are peace,
  22. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise.
  23. To that land, to that land to that land I am bound,
  24. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise.
  25. 5This is the way I long have sought,
  26. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise,
  27. And mourned because I found it not,
  28. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise.
  29. To that land, to that land to that land I am bound,
  30. Where there'll no more stormy clouds rise.

About this music

OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Way to Canaan page.

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