| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Paradise |
| | | Frederick William Faber (1814–63) |
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| O PARADISE, O Paradise, | |
| Who doth not crave for rest, | |
| Who would not seek the happy land | |
| Where they that lov’d are blest? | |
| Where loyal hearts and true | 5 |
| Stand ever in the light, | |
| All rapture through and through, | |
| In God’s most holy sight. | |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | |
| The world is growing old; | 10 |
| Who would not be at rest and free | |
| Where love is never cold? | |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | |
| Wherefore doth death delay? | |
| Bright death, that is the welcome dawn | 15 |
| Of our eternal day. | |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | |
| ’T is weary waiting here; | |
| I long to be where Jesus is, | |
| To feel, to see him near. | 20 |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | |
| I want to sin no more, | |
| I want to be as pure on earth | |
| As on thy spotless shore. | |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | 25 |
| I greatly long to see | |
| The special place my dearest Lord | |
| Is destining for me. | |
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| O Paradise, O Paradise, | |
| I feel’t will not be long; | 30 |
| Patience! I almost think I hear | |
| Faint fragments of thy song; | |
| Where loyal hearts and true | |
| Stand ever in the light, | |
| All rapture through and through, | 35 |
| In God’s most holy sight. | |
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