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252. Forever With The Lord

1 "Forever with the Lord!"
Amen! so let it be!
Life and spirit from above.
'Tis immortality!

2 Here, in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam,
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.

3 My Father's house on high,
Home of my soul, how near,
At times, to faith's foreseeing eye,
Thy golden gates appear!

4 Ah! then my spirit faints
To reach the land I love,
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above!

5 "Forever with the Lord!"
Father, if 'tis Thy will,
The promise of that faithful word
E'en here to me fulfill.

6 Be Thou at my right hand,
Then can I never fail;
Uphold Thou me, and I shall stand;
Fight, and I must prevail.

7 So when my dying breath
Shall rend the veil in twain,
By death I shall escape from death,
And life eternal gain.

8 Knowing as I am known,
How shall I love that word,
And oft repeat, before the throne,
"Forever with the Lord!"

Text Information
First Line: "Forever with the Lord!"
Title: Forever With The Lord
Author: J. Montgomery (1835)
Meter: S. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1928
Topic: Comfort and Hope
Tune Information
Name: [Forever with the Lord]
Composer: R. Schumann (arr.)
Meter: S. M.
Key: A♭ Major



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