Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: Farewell vain world I'm going home
Topic: Longing for Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 280
Page Number: 236, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFarewell vain world, I'm going Home,
My Saviour smiles and bids me come;
Bright angel's beckon me away,
To sing God's praise in endless day.
I'm glad that I was born to die;
From grief and wo my soul shall fly;
Bright angels shall convey me home,
Away to New Jerusalem.
And when to that bright world I fly,
And join the anthems in the sky;
O then my happy soul shall tell,
My Jesus has done all things well.
Hope to meet my brethren there,
Who one did join with me in pray'r
Our mourning time will then be o'er,
And we shall live to die no more.
I'll praise my God while I have breath,
I hope to praise him after death,
I hope to praise him when I die,
And shout salvation as I fly.
We soon shall hear the solemn sound-
"Awake ye nations under ground;
Arise and drop your dying shrouds,
And meet King Jesus in the clouds."
There I shall see my glorious God,
And triumph in his blest abode;
My theme, thro' all eternity,
Shall glory, glory, glory, be.