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Better Land, The/There Is a Land Mine Eyes Have Seen
Public Domain Bluegrass Gospel; Daniel Brink Towner (1850-1919) Late 1800s
ARTIST: Collected from Songs for Men (Rodeheaver) # 88
SHEET MUSIC: http://books.google.com/books?id=_XAyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA72&dq=%22The+Better+Land%22+towner&cd=2#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Better%20Land%22%20towner&f=false
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: Late 1800s (pre 1895);
RECORDING INFO: Away Over in the Promised Land
Rodeheaver. Songs for Men #88
International song service: with bright gems from fifty authors- 1895
The Endeavor hymnal 1901
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OTHER NAMES: "There Is a Land Mine Eyes Have Seen"
SOURCES: Songs for Men (Rodeheaver) #88
The Endeavor Hymnal- 1901
NOTES: "The Better Land" is an old public domain bluegrass gospel by Daniel Brink Towner (1850-1919) that appears in Songs for Men (Rodeheaver) # 88. The 1st line of hymn, "There Is a Land Mine Eyes Have Seen" is also used as a title.
BETTER LAND, THE- Daniel Brink Towner
There is a land mine eyes have seen
In visions of enraptured tho't.
So bright that all wich spreads between
Is with it's radiant glories fraught.
Chorus: Oh, land of love, of joy and light,
Thy glories gild earth's darkest night;
Thy tranquil shores we too shall see,
When day shall break, and shadows flee.
A land upon whose blissful shore
There rests no shadow, falls no stain;
There those who meet shall part no more,
And those long parted meet again.
Its skies are not like earthly skies,
With varying hues of shade and light;
It hath no need of suns to rise
To dissipate the gloom of night.
There sweeps no desolating wind
Across the calm, serene abode;
The wand'rer there a home may find
Within the Paradise of God.
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