Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Forever with the Lord
Topic: The New Life/Aspirations
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: I Woodbury
Meter: SM double
Tune: Forever With the Lord
Hymn Number: 600
Page Number: 219, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics"Forever with the Lord!"
Amen. So let it be,
Life from the dead is in that word,
'T is immortality.
Here in the body pent,
Absent from him I roam;
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home, nearer home, nearer home,
A day's march nearer home.
My Father's house on high,
Home of my soul, how near
At times, to faith's aspiring eye,
Thy golden gates appear!
Ah, then my spirit faints,
To reach the land I love,
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above, home above, etc.
Yet doubts still intervene,
And all my comfort flies:
Like Noah's dove, I flit between
Rough seas and stormy skies;
Anon the clouds depart,
The winds and waters cease;
While sweetly o'er my gladdened heart
Expands the bow of peace, bow of, etc.