With meter 86.86.66.66, tunes it is set to include:
- PARADISE (Barnby) by English organist, choirmaster and composer Joseph Barnby 1866 - the most commonly used tune
- PARADISE (Dykes) by John B. Dykes, 1868
- PARADISE (Smart) by English lawyer and composer Henry Thomas Smart (1813-1879)
- An unnamed tune by Harry Hicks, 2018
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Examples
Samll group with string accompaniment, tune by Barnaby:
Small choir, unaccompanied:
Instruemntal - piano. Tune by Barnaby
Lyrics
Traditional language
1 O paradise! O paradise!Who doth not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land
where they that loved are blest.
Chorus:
Where loyal hearts and true
stand ever in the light.
all rapture through and through,
in God's most holy sight?
2 O paradise! O paradise!
The world is growing old;
who would not be at rest and free
where love is never cold.
3 O paradise! O paradise!
I want to sin no more,
I want to be as pure on earth
as on thy spotless shore.
4 O paradise! O paradise!
'Tis weary waiting here;
I long to be where Jesus is,
to feel, to see him near.
5 O paradise! O paradise!
I shall not wait for long;
e'en now the loving ear may catch
faint fragments of thy song.
6 Lord Jesus, King of paradise,
O keep me in thy love,
and guide me to that happy land
of perfect rest above.
Modern English
1 O paradise! O paradise!Who does not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land
where they that loved are blest.
Chorus:
Where loyal hearts and true
stand ever in the light.
all rapture through and through,
in God's most holy sight?
2 O paradise! O paradise!
The world is growing old;
who would not be at rest and free
where love is never cold.
3 O paradise! O paradise!
I want to sin no more,
I want to be as pure on earth
as on your spotless shore.
4 O paradise! O paradise!
'Tis weary waiting here;
I long to be where Jesus is,
to feel, to see him near.
5 O paradise! O paradise!
I shall not wait for long;
e'en now the loving ear may catch
faint fragments of thy song.
6 Lord Jesus, King of paradise,
O keep me in Your love,
and guide me to that happy land
of perfect rest above.
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