Text: | Jerusalem, my happy home |
Tune: | LAND OF REST |
Harmonizer: | Annabel Morris Buchanan, b. 1888 |
1 Jerusalem, my happy home,
When shall I come to thee?
When shall my sorrows have an end?
Thy joys when shall I see?
2 O happy harbor of the saints,
O sweet and pleasant soil!
In thee no sorrow may be found,
No grief, no care, no toil.
3 Thy gardens and thy gallant walks
Continually are green;
There grow such sweet and pleasant flowers
As nowhere else are seen.
4 Quite through the streets with silver sound
The flood of life doth flow,
Upon whose banks on every side
The wood of life doth grow.
5 There trees for evermore bear fruit,
And evermore do spring;
There evermore the angels sit,
And evermore do sing.
6 Jerusalem, my happy home,
Would God I were in thee!
Would God my woes were at an end,
Thy joys that I might see!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Jerusalem, my happy home |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1958 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Saints' Days - Minor Festivals; The Church: The House of God; The Life In Christ: Life Everlasting |
Source: | Based on St. Augustine, F. B. P., cir. XVI cent. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LAND OF REST |
Harmonizer: | Annabel Morris Buchanan, b. 1888 |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Traditional American Melody |
Copyright: | Music by permission of J. Fischer and Brother, owners of the copyright |