Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Jerusalem my happy home
Topic: The Christian's Hope Rank Honors and Future Glory
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: Song 331
Page Number: 400, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJERUSALEM, my happy home,
O how I long for thee!
When will my sorrows have an end?
Thy joys when shall I see?
Thy walls are all of precious stones,
Most glorious to behold!
Thy gates are richly set with pearl,
Thy streets are pav'd with gold.
Thy gardens and thy pleasant greens
My study long have been;
Such sparkling gems by human sight
Have never yet been seen.
If heaven be thus glorious, Lord,
Why should I stay from thence?
What folly 'tis that I should dread
To die and go from hence!
Reach down, reach down thine arm of grace
And cause me to ascend,
Where congregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbaths never end.
Jesus, my love, to glory's gone;
Him will I go and see;
And all my brethren here below
Will soon come after me.