Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Forever with the Lord
Topic: Heaven
Writer: J Montgomery
Composer: I Woodbury
Meter: SM peculiar
Tune: Forever With the Lord
Hymn Number: 411
Page Number: 134, click to see hymnal pages
Lyics"FOREVER with the Lord!"
Amen. So let it be.
Life from the dead is in that word;
'Tis immortality.
Here in the body pent,
Absent from thee I roam;
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home, Nearer, etc.
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 pants
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.