Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: I have no resting-place on earth
Topic: The New Life/Aspiration
Writer: W Baxter
Composer:
Meter: CMD
Tune:
Hymn Number: 819
Page Number: 479, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI have no resting-place on earth
On which to fix my love;
But O! my heart is yearning for
The promised rest above.
'T is true, this earth is passing fair,
O'er which I sadly 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
Shall tempt my feet to roam,
To seek a dwelling-place below,
Since heaven is my home.
O, were this earth as fair as when
Primeval Eden smiled,
I would not by its glowing charms
Be from my hope 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.