Hymns in Translation: VI

Continuing our presentation of the many ways in which a wonderful Welsh Hymn has been rendered into English:

From life's dreary desert ascending

To paradise, realm of the blest;

My soul filled with gladness transcending

On Jesus' Calm bosom shall rest,

Rejoicing in safety supernal-

From sin, and affliction, and pain -

Extolling in antems eternal

The love of the lamb that was slain.

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From Salem's fair heights we shall witness

Our way through the dester of life,

And then we shall see the sweet fitness

Of all its strange sorrows and strife:

Its storms shall we see and its fears,

And death-from the mansions above-

When, safe from its terrors and tears,

We revel in peace and in love.

Rev. Gethin Davies