Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Jerusalem my happy home
Topic: The New Life/Aspirations
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: A Fillmore
Meter: CM
Tune: Going Home
Hymn Number: 585
Page Number: 213, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJerusalem, my happy home,
Oh, how I long for thee!
when will my sorrows have an end?
Thy joys, when shall I see?
CHORUS
We're going home, we're going home,
We're going home to live forever.
Thy walls are all of precious stones,
Most glorious to behold!
Thy gates are richly set with pearl,
Thy streets are paved with gold.
Thy gardens and thy pleasant greens
My study long have been;
Such sparkling gems by human sight
Have never yet been seen.
If heaven be thus glorious, Lord,
Why should I stay from thence?
What folly 't is that I should dread
To die and go from hence!
Reach down, reach down thine arms of grace,
And cause me to ascend
Where congregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbaths never end.
Jesus, my love, to glory's gone;
Him will I go and see;
And all my brethren here below
Will soon come after me.