For ever with the Lord!

James Montgomery

6 Verses Christian Hymn Spiritual Song

Verse 1

For ever with the Lord! Amen, so let it be; Life from the dead is in that word, ' Tis immortality.

Verse 2

My Father's house on high, Home of my soul, how near At times to Faith's foreseeing eye Thy golden gates appear.

Verse 3

My thirsty spirit faints To reach the land I love, The bright inheritance of saints, Jerusalem above.

Verse 4

For ever with the Lord! Father, if 'tis Thy will, The promise of that faithful word E'en here to me fulfill.

Verse 5

Knowing as I am known How shall I love that word, And oft repeat before the throne For ever with the Lord!

Chorus

Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.