Sweet Home of Rest

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How fair are the walls of that city of light

Author: Fannie E. Davison
Tune: [How fair are the walls of that city of light]
Published in 4 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 How fair are the walls of that city of light,
Whose streets by the ransomed are trod,
And over whose beauty there cometh no cloud,
Whose builder and maker is God.

Chorus:
O home, sweet home of rest;
Home of the sinless,
Home of the blest,
O home, sweet home of rest,
Home, sweet home.

2 And sometimes the gates of that city I see,
And sometimes in melody clear
The voices, whose silence has saddened my heart,
Come sweetly my spirit to cheer. [Chorus]

3 I list to their music, the city draws near,
The city of infinite rest,
They call me in accents of tenderest love,
They sing of the home of the blest. [Chorus]

Source: Gems and Jewels #148

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Author: Fannie E. Davison

Fannie Estelle Davison Born: 1851, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Died: March 10, 1887, Chicago, Illinois. Buried: Carthage, Missouri. Fannie’s father was killed when she was 10 years old; after her mother’s remarriage to hotelier Henry Warner, the family moved to Carthage, Missouri. Fannie married court reporter Asa Lee Davison and they moved to Chicago, Illinois, then Madison, Wisconsin. Several of her songs appeared in publications from the Fillmore Brothers of Cincinnati, Ohio, including Songs of Gratitude (1877), Joy and Gladness (1880) and The Voice of Joy (1882). Lyrics-- Last Words, The Purer in Heart, O God… Go to person page >

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First Line:	How fair are the walls of that city of light
Title:	Sweet Home of Rest
Author:	Fannie E. Davison
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O home, sweet home of rest
Copyright:	Public Domain