Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: Far away in the land of the pure and bright
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: K Shaw
Composer: K Shaw
Tune: Beautiful Home
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 308, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFar away, in the land of the pure and bright,
Is the city of God, with its golden light!
O, there is our home, and we ever shall stand,
Mid the shining ones of the better land.
[Chorus] O, beautiful home! beautiful home!
Where beautiful saints surround the throne.
O, I long to be there, and forever to stand
'Mid the shining ones of the better land.
That beautiful land we are nearing now,
Where a crown of bright glory encircles each brow,
Where the tree of life grows on that beautiful shore,
Where flowers shall freshen to fade no more. --CHO.
With palms and bright crowns and our robes of light,
We shall roam the fair fields with eternal delight,
And join in the songs of the purified band,
'Mid the shining ones of the better land. --CHO.
O, how cheering the thought, that when life here is o'er,
We may meet one another on yonder bright shore,
Where sin and temptation we never shall know,
Where the river of life shall eternally flow. --CHO.
Then come, brother pilgrims, let love freely flow,
As on to our beautiful home we shall go,
For Jesus has said we must go hand in hand,
If ever we enter that beautiful land. --CHO.
O, my soul is now weary of toiling below;
To the home of the shining-robed saints would I go,
With Jesus, my Savior, forever to stand,
'Mid the shining throng of the better land. --CHO.