Hymn 85 - Forever With The Lord

Forever with the Lord! Amen, so let it be! Life from His death is in that word’Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day’s march nearer home

My Father’s house on high, Home of my soul, how near At times to faith’s foreseeing eye Thy golden gates appear! Ah! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright inheritance of saints, Jerusalem above.

Yet clouds will intervene, And all my prospect flies; Like Noah’s dove, I flit between Rough seas and stormy skies. Anon the clouds depart, The winds and waters cease, While sweetly o’er my gladdened heart Expands the bow of peace.

I hear at morn and even, At noon and midnight hour, The choral harmonies of Heaven Earth’s Babel tongues o’erpower; That resurrection word, That shout of victory:Once more, Forever with the Lord! Amen, so let it be!