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Hymn: Forever with the Lord (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Forever with the Lord

Topic: The New Life/Temptations and Conflicts

Writer: <no first name given> Montgomery

Composer:

Meter: SM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 873

Page Number: 514, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

"Forever with the Lord,"

Amen, so let it be;

Life from the dead is in that word,

'T is immortality.



Here in the body pent,

Absent from him I roam,

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent

A day's march nearer home.



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 faints,

To reach the land I love,

The bright inheritance of saints,

Jerusalem above.



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.