Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: There is a place where my hopes are stayed
Topic: The Present and the Future/Heaven
Writer: W Hunter
Composer:
Meter: 9s and 8s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1159
Page Number: 695, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThere is a place where my hopes are stay'd,
My heart and my treasure are there;
Where verdure and blossoms never fade,
Adn fields are eternally fair.
CHORUS
That blissful place is my father-land;
By faith its delights I explore;
Come, favor my flight, angelic band,
And waft me in peace to the shore.
There is a place where the angels dwell,
A pure and peaceful abode;
The joys of that place no tongue can tell;
For there is the palace of God!
There is a place where my friends are gone
Who suffer'd and worship'd with me;
Exalted with Christ, high on his throne,
The King in his beauty they see.
There is a place where I hope to live
When life and its labors are o'er,
A place which the Lord to me will give,
And then I shall sorrow no more.