The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 675a. Forever with the Lord!

The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892‎#675a

1 Forever with the Lord!
Amen! so let it be!
Life from the dead is in that word,
And 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 Then, then I feel that He,
Remembered or forgot,
The Lord, is never far from me,
Though I perceive Him not.

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

Amen.

Text Information
First Line:	Forever with the Lord!
Title:	Forever with the Lord!
Author:	James Montgomery (1835)
Meter:	S. M.
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1892
Topic:	Home and Personal Use; Aspiration; Faith; Hope (1 more...)
Notes:	Tune name in index: SCHUMANN

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