Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Jerusalem my happy home
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 122
Page Number: 068, 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 pearls,
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 praises 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.