{{Infobox musical composition | name = Sweet Place | type = | image = <!-- without leading "File:" --> | alt = | caption = | translation = <!-- to English, if hymn name is a different language --> | native_name = <!-- if hymn name is the translation --> | native_name_lang = <!-- two-letter code --> | composer = | genre = Hymn | occasion = | text = Samuel Crossman | language = | written = | based_on = | meter = 6.6.6.6.8.8 | melody = "Christchurch" by Charles Steggall, "Darwall" by John Darwall and Aaron Williams | composed = <!-- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}}|end_date={{End date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}}|location=}} --> | published = | misc = }}
thumb|Charles Steggall
'''Sweet Place''' is a hymn by Samuel Crossman and music composed by John Darwall and Aaron Williams.
:Sweet place; sweet place alone! ::The court of God most high, :The heaven of heavens, the throne ::Of spotless majesty!
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::O happy place! :When shall I be, my God, with Thee, ::To see Thy face?
:The stranger homeward bends, ::And sigheth for his rest: :Heaven is my home, my friends ::Lodge there in Abraham’s breast.
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:Earth’s but a sorry tent, ::Pitched but a few frail days, :A short leased tenement; ::Heaven’s still my song, my praise.
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:No tears from any eyes ::Drop in that holy choir: :But death itself there dies, ::And sighs themselves expire.
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:There should temptations cease, ::My frailties there should end. :There should I rest in peace ::In the arms of my best friend.
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:Jerusalem on high ::My song and city is, :My home whene’er I die, ::The center of my bliss.
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:Thy walls, sweet city! thine ::With pearls are garnished, :Thy gates with praises shine, ::Thy streets with gold are spread.
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:No sun by day shines there, ::No moon by silent night. :O no! these needless are; ::The Lamb’s the city’s light.
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:There dwells my Lord, my King, ::Judged here unfit to live; :There angels to Him sing, ::And lowly homage give.
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:The patriarchs of old ::There from their travels cease: :The prophets there behold ::Their longed for Prince of peace.
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:The Lamb’s apostles there ::I might with joy behold: :The harpers I might hear ::Harping on harps of gold.
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:The bleeding martyrs, they ::Within those courts are found; :All clothed in pure array, ::Their scars with glory crowned.
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:Ah me! ah me! that I ::In Kedar’s tents here stay; :No place like this on high; ::Thither, Lord! guide my way.
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==External links== * [http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/s/w/sweetpla.htm Sweet Place]
Category:English Christian hymns Category:17th-century hymns