Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: There is a fold where none can stray
Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> East
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1132
Page Number: 673, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThere is a fold where none can stray,
And pastures ever green,
Where sultry sun, or stormy day,
Or night is never seen.
Far up the everlasting hills,
In God's own light it lies;
His smile its vast doninion fills
With joy that never dies.
One narrow vale, one darksome wave
Divides that land from this;
I have a Shepherd pledged to save,
And bear me home to bliss.
Soon at his feet my soul shall lie,
In life's last struggling breath;
But I shall only seem to die,
I shall not taste of death.
Far from this guilty world to be
Exempt from toil and strife;
To spend eternity with thee--
My Saviour, this is life!