Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1843
Compiler: A Campbell/ W Scott/ B W Stone/ J T Johnson
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Jerusalem my happy home
Topic: Future Glory
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: Victory
Hymn Number: Song 60 (part I)
Page Number: 135 (part I), click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJERUSALEM, my happy home,
O how I long for thee!
When will my sorrows have an end?
The joys when shall I see?
Thy walls are all of precious stones,
Most glorious to behold!
Thy gates are richly set with pearl,
Thy streets are pav'd with gold.
Thy gardens and thy pleasant greens,
My study long have been;
Such sparkling gems by human sight
Have never yet been seen.
If heaven be thus glorious, Lord,
Why should I stay from thence!
What folly 'tis that I should dread
To die and go from hence!
Reach down, reach down thine arm of grace,
And cause me to ascend,
Where congregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbaths never end.
Jesus, my love, to glory's gone;
Him will I go and see;
And all my brethren here below
Will soon come after me.