Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1850
Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: I have no resting place on earth
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: Heaven is my home
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 108, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI have no rest-ing place on earth,
On which to fix my love;
But O my heart is yearning for
The promised rest a-bove.
'Tis true the earth is passing fair,
O'er which I sad-ly roam;
But yet it hath no charms for me,
For heaven is my home.
A pilgrim long I've wandered here,
But with a steadfast eye
I see a rest reserved for me
At God's right hand on high;
Then all the joys of earth in vain
Will tempt my feet to roam,
To seek a rest on earth below,
Since heaven is my home.
Oh! were this world as fair as when
Primeval Eden smiled
I would not by its glowing charms
To dwell here, be beguiled;
But I would seek a brighter world
Where God has bid me come.
Then seek no more to bind me here
For heaven is my home.