Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Jerusalem my glorious home
Topic: Heaven
Writer: Unknown Unknown
Composer:
Meter: CM double
Tune: Metropolis
Hymn Number: 338
Page Number: 112, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJERUSALEM, my glorious home,
Name ever dear to me!
When shall my labors have an end,
In joy and peace and thee?
When shall these eyes thy heaven-built wall
And pearly gates behold;
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?
There happier bowers than Eden's bloom,
Nor sin nor sorrow know:
Blest seats, thro' rude and stormy scenes
I onward press to you.
Why should I shrink at pain and woe,
Or feel, at death, dismay?
I've Canaan's goodly land in view,
And realms of endless day.
Apostles, martyrs, prophets there,
Around my Saviour stand;
And soon my friends in Christ below
Will join the glorious band.
Jerusalem, my glorious home!
My soul still pants for thee;
Then shall my labors have an end,
When I thy joys shall see.