There is a home, a home fadeless and bright

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There is a home, a home fadeless and bright

Author: Harriet Cecilia Phillips
Tune: FAR AWAY (Dingley)
Published in 6 hymnals

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1 There is a home, a home fadeless and bright,
Far away, far away,
There is no dark, no dark and stormy night,
Far away, far away.
For Jesus said, I will prepare
The child of God a mansion fair;
O may I have a dwelling there,
Far away, far away.

2 Then let the storm, the storm be wild and long;
Jesus loves, Jesus loves,
And this shall be, shall be my daily song:--
Jesus loves, Jesus loves,
He loves, He loves, I know, I feel,
Young as I am, He loves me still;
O may I do his blessed will;
Jesus loves, Jesus loves.

3 And then at home, at home I soon shall be,
Far away, far away,
From care and pain, from pain shall soon be free--
Far away, far away.
There tears of grief are never known,
In that bright world I call my own;
And swiftly I am passing on,
Far away, far away.

Source: Linden Harp: a rare collection of popular melodies adapted to sacred and moral songs, original and selected. Illustrated. Also a manual of... #34

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Author: Harriet Cecilia Phillips

Phillips, Harriet Cecilia, was born in Sharon, Connecticut, in 1806, and was for many years an active worker in Sunday Schools in New York city. She contributed five hymns to the Rev. W. C. Hoyt's Family and Social Melodies, 1853, and has also written for various magazines. "We bring no glittering treasures" (Sunday School Anniversary), was written circa 1848 for a Sunday School Festival in New York city, and published in the Methodist Episcopal Hymns, 1849 (Nutter's Hymn Notes, 1884, p. 31l). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) Go to person page >

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