520. 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,
Thy golden gates appear!

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

Amen.

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First Line: Forever with the Lord!
Title: Forever with the Lord!
Author: James Montgomery, 1771-1854
Meter: S. M.
Publication Date: 1937
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