Text: | To Realms Of Glory I Behold |
Author: | J. O. Wallin |
Translator: | C. W. Foss |
Tune: | EISENACH |
Composer: | Johann Hermann Schein |
1 To realms of glory I behold
My risen Lord returning;
While I, a stranger in the earth,
For heaven sit am yearning.
Far from my heav'nly Father’s home,
’Mid toil and sorrow here I roam.
2 Far from my home--how long, dear Lord,
Before my exile endeth?
But far beyond the realms of sense,
My fervent prayer ascendeth:
My prayer, unuttered, but a groan,
Shall rend the skies and reach Thy throne.
3 Then visions of the goodly land
By faith my soul obtaineth;
There I shall dwell forevermore
Where Christ in glory reigneth,
In mansions of that blest abode,
The city of the living God.
4 In that fair city is no night,
Nor any pain or weeping;
There is my treasure, there my heart,
Safe in my Savior’s keeping;
In heav'n, my blessed Lord, with Thee
May all my conversation be.
5 In glory He shall come again
To earth as He ascended;
So let me wait and watch and pray,
Until my day is ended.
That day, O Lord, is hid from me,
But daily do I wait for Thee.
6 And blessed shall that servant be,
O Lord, at Thy returning,
Whose heart is waiting, Lord, for Thee,
Whose lamp is trimmed and burning;
Him wilt Thou take to dwell with Thee
In joy and peace eternally.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | To realms of glory I behold |
Title: | To Realms Of Glory I Behold |
Translator: | C. W. Foss |
Author: | J. O. Wallin (1816) |
Meter: | 8 7 8 7 8 8 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1930 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Ascension |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | EISENACH |
Composer: | Johann Hermann Schein (1627) |
Meter: | 8 7 8 7 8 8 |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | German chorale: Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Güt |