Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Far from my heavenly home
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1068
Page Number: 631, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFar from my heavenly home,
Far from my Father's breast,
Fainting I cry, Blest Saviour! come,
And speed me to my rest.
My spirit homeward turns
And fain would thither flee;
My heart, O Zion! drops and yearns,
When I remember thee.
To thee, to thee, I press
A dark and toilsome road;
When shall I pass the wilderness
And reach the saints' abode.
God of my life! be near;
On thee my hopes I cast;
O guide me through the desert here,
And bring me home at last!