516. For ever with the Lord
S.M.
Heath:
Mason and Webb, Cantica Laudis, 1850
James Montgomery, 1835
For ever with the Lord! Amen! so let it be! Life from the dead is in that word, And immortality! | Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. | 471 My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near, At times, to faith's foreseeing eye, Thy golden gates appear! | Ah! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright inheritance of saints, Jerusalem above! | Then, then I feel that he, Remembered or forgot, The Lord, is never far from me Though I perceive him not. | So when my latest breath Shall rend the veil in twain, By death I shall escape from death, And life eternal gain. | |