On Joyful Wings

On joyful wings our raptured souls
Would mount and spread their flight,
And from Mount Pisgah’s top behold
The land of pure delight.

Refrain

Above the clouds, above the stars,
That heav’nly region fair,
Where He, our Lord and Savior, dwells,
Our home, our home is there.

Sweet visions oft His love reveals,
Of that divine abode;
And with His kind, protecting hand,
He leads us on the road.

Refrain

O blessèd hope that bears us up,
And stills each throb of care!
The night will pass, the morn will come,
And we shall soon be there.

Refrain

Author: Fanny Crosby

Year: 1880

Fanny Crosby (Frances Jane Crosby) is the most likely author; the text matches her known hymn 'On Joyful Wings' with this exact first stanza and refrain. Some hymnals list it under her married name Fanny J. Crosby or with alternate attributions to other 19th-century writers, but primary sources credit her.