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Hymn: This world is poor from shore to shore (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: This world is poor from shore to shore

Topic: The New Life/Temptations and Conflicts

Writer: <no first name given> Nelson

Composer:

Meter: CM peculiar

Tune:

Hymn Number: 874

Page Number: 515, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

This world is poor from shore to shore,

And, like a baseless vision,

Its lofty domes and brilliant ore,

Its gems and crowns are vain and poor;

There's nothing rich but heaven.



Empires decay, and nations die,

Our hopes to winds are given;

The vernal blooms in ruin lie,

Death reigns o'er all beneath the sky;

There's nothing sure but heaven.



Creation's mighty fabric all

Shall be to atoms riven--

The skies consume, the planets fall,

Convulsions rock this earthly ball;

There's nothing firm but heaven.



A stranger, lonely here I roam,

From place to place am driven;

My friends are gone, and I'm in gloom,

This earth is all a dismal tomb;

I have no home but heaven.



The clouds disperse--the light appears,

My sins are all forgiven;

Triumphant grace has quelled my fears;

Roll on, thou sun! fly swift, my years!

I'm on my way to heaven.