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Text:Forever with the Lord!
Tune:ST. BRIDE
Composer:Dr. S. Howard, d. 1782

113. Forever with the Lord!

1 Forever with the Lord!
Amen! so let it be!
Life from the dead is in that word,
And immortality.

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

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

4 Ah! then my spirit faints
To reach the land I love,
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above!

5 Then, then I feel that He,
Remembered or forgot,
The Lord, is never far from me,
Though I perceive Him not.

6 So when my latest breath
Shall rend the veil in twain,
By death I shall escape from death,
And life eternal gain.

Text Information
First Line: Forever with the Lord!
Meter: S. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1898
Topic: God the Father: Desire For; Heaven; Heavenly-Mindedness (1 more...)
Notes: J. Montgomery, 1835.
Tune Information
Name: ST. BRIDE
Composer: Dr. S. Howard, d. 1782
Meter: S. M.
Key: g minor



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