O! Ye Mountains High (Zion)

DESCRIPTION: "O ye mountains high, where the clear blue sky Arches over the vales of the free, Where the pure breezes blow and the clear streamlets flow, How I’ve longed to your bosom to flee!" The singer is looking to Zion, "home of the free"
AUTHOR: Words: Charles W. Penrose (1832-1925) / Music: H. S. Thompson (source: Mormon hymnals)
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle); Mormon hymnals date the music to c. 1852
KEYWORDS: religious home | Mormon mountains
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle, p. 88, "(O! Ye Mountains High)" (1 partial text)
Roud #22658
File: FSSS088

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