My Heavenly Home

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Beyond the pale of earthly blight

Author: Thoro Harris
Tune: ALOHA OE
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Beyond the pale of earthly blight,
There lies a country fair and bright
Where never fall the shades of night,
Over there, in the saints’ eternal home.

Chorus:
My heav’nly home, my glorious home!
To thee with fervent hope my heart is turning;
Dear land of peace, where raging tempests cease,
My fair eternal home.

2 There on that bright and shining shore,
We’ll meet the friends we lov’d of yore,
And dwell with them forevermore,
Over there, in the saints’ eternal home. [Chorus]

3 ‘Twill not be long I linger here,
For Christ will very soon appear;
E’en now His coming draweth near;
He will take me to my eternal home. [Chorus]

Source: Great Tabernacle Hymns #113

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Author: Thoro Harris

Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Beyond the pale of earthly blight
Title:	My Heavenly Home
Author:	Thoro Harris
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	My heavenly home, my glorious home
Copyright:	Public Domain