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title: 'It’s Never Night in Heaven'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2018-09-10
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2018-its-never-night-in-heaven
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# It’s Never Night in Heaven

[Louis FitzGerald Benson](/authors/louis-fitzgerald-benson) was not only, as a scholar and an historian, ["America’s foremost hymnologist,"](/blog/2018-americas-foremost-hymnologist) he was also a poet in his own right. This composition is from his 1897 volume titled *Hymns and Verses*. It is a sweet meditation on Revelation 22:5.

**"And There Shall Be No Night There"**

THERE'S a red burst of dawn, and a white light of noon,
\[And the hues of the rainbow are seven;\]
But the best thing of all, when the dark comes so soon,
Is to know that it’s ne'er night in Heaven.

There’s a break in the clouds, and a sheen on the rain,
\[And the hues of the rainbow are seven;\]
But the sweetest of lights that can brighten our pain
Is to know that it’s ne'er night in Heaven.

There’s a calm’ of the heart through the long after- noon,
\[And the gifts of the Spirit are seven,\]
When there floats on the dusk, like a leaf-whispered tune,
"Did you know that it’s ne'er night in Heaven?”

There’s a gleam through the night of a throne set afar,
\[And the hues of its rainbow are seven;\]
But it stands not so sure as God’s promises are. Who has said,
"There is no night in Heaven.”