Beautiful Waters of Eden
Authors: Fanny Crosby • Composers: Adam Geibel • Meter: 10.9.10.9. double with refrain, 10.9.10.9.10.9.10.9. with refrain • Language: English • Formats: lyrics, png • Copyright: Free PNG, Public Domain
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1. Murmuring softly, caroling gently
Music enchanting cometh to me;
Over the waters, beautiful waters,
Where in the homeland soon I shall be.
How like a vision tenderly stealing
Over my spirit weary oppressed;
Drawing me upward, urging me forward,
Telling of sunshine, rapture and rest.
Chorus:
Murmuring softly, (Murmuring softly,) caroling gently, (caroling gently,)
Music enchanting (Music enchanting) cometh to me;
Over the waters, (Over the waters,) beautiful waters, (beautiful waters,)
Where in the homeland (Where in the homeland) soon I shall be.
2. Silently musing, blissfully gazing
Into the future teeming with light,
Sweetly the echoes floating around me,
Whisper of Eden lovely and bright,
Eden, where summer, fadeless, eternal,
Scatters its roses blooming for aye;
There is no parting, there is no weeping,
Sorrow and sighing vanish away.
3. There our Redeemer, loving Redeemer,
Gathers the faithful safe on his breast,
Out of the changing into the changeless,
Out of the toiling into the rest.
Welcome the moment when to his presence,
Joyful my spirit flies like a bird;
O what a morrow, O what a meeting,
Eye hath not seen it, ear hath not heard.