Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Jerusalem my happy home
Topic: The New Life/Aspiration
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 820
Page Number: 479, 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 't is that I should dread
To die and go from hence?
Reach down, reach down thine arms 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.