Aurora vails her rosy face. Ralph Erskine. [The Joys of Heaven] First published in his Gospel Sonnets (2nd ed., Edin., 1726), as section 6 of part v., entitled "The Song of Heaven desired by Saints on Earth," in 20 stanzas of 4 lines. Of this, 11 stanzas, beginning with stanza ii ("Happy the company that's gone"), were included in the Sacred Songs of Scotland, 1860. Rewritten in 1785 by John Berridge as No. 143 of his Sion's Songs, beginning "O happy saints, who dwell in light."
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