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Isaac Baker Woodbury, 1819 - 58. Harmonized by Sullivan |
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| 1 | For ever with the Lord! | 2 | My father’s house on high, | |||
| Amen; so let it be: | Home of my soul, how near | |||||
| Life from the dead is in that word, | At times, to faith’s foreseeing eye, | |||||
| ’Tis immortality. | The golden gates appear! | |||||
| Here in the body pent, | Here in the body pent, | |||||
| Absent from Him I roam, | Absent from Him I roam, | |||||
| Yet nightly pitch my moving tent | Yet nightly pitch my moving tent | |||||
| A day’s march nearer home. | A day’s march nearer home. | |||||
| 3 | For ever with the Lord! | 4 | So when my latest breath | |||
| Father, if ’tis Thy will, | Shall rend the veil in twain, | |||||
| The promise of that faithful word | By death I shall escape from death | |||||
| Even here to me fulfil. | And life eternal gain. | |||||
| Here in the body pent, | Here in the body pent, | |||||
| Absent from Him I roam, | Absent from Him I roam, | |||||
| Yet nightly pitch my moving tent | Yet nightly pitch my moving tent | |||||
| A day’s march nearer home. | A day’s march nearer home. | |||||
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