Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: There is a place where my hopes are stayed
Topic: Present and Future/Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: P Phillips
Meter: 9s and 8s
Tune: Heavenly Fatherland
Hymn Number: 776
Page Number: 290, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThere is a place where my hopes are stayed,
My heart and my treasure are there;
Where verdure and blos-soms nev-er fade,
And fields are e-ter-nal-ly fair.
CHO.- That bliss-ful place is my fa-ther-land;
By faith its de-lights I ex-plore;
Come, fa-vor my flight, an-gel-ic band,
And waft me in peace to the shore.
There is a place where the angels dwell,
A pure and a peaceful a-bode;
The joys of that place no tongue can tell,
For there is the pal-ace of God!
There is a place where my friends are gone
Who suffered and worshipped with me!
Ex-alt-ed with Christ, high on his throne,
The King in his beau-ty they see.
There is a place where I hope to live
When life and its la-bors are o'er,
A place which the Lord to me will give,
And then I shall sor-row no more.