"Forever with the Lord!"
Amen! so let it be!
Life from the dead 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.
Nearer home! nearer home!
A day’s march nearer home!

My Father’s house on high,
Home of my soul, how dear!
E’en now to faith’s aspiring eye
Thy golden gates appear!
My thirsting spirit faints
To reach the home I love-
The bright inheritance of saints,
Jerusalem above!
Home I love! home I love!
Jerusalem above!

There shall all clouds depart,
The wilderness shall cease,
And sweetly every gladdened heart
Enjoy eternal peace!
And though there intervene
Rough seas and stormy skies,
Though by no mortal vision seen,
Thy glory fills our eyes!
Fill our eyes! fills our eyes!
Thy glory fills our eyes!

"Forever with the Lord!"
If, Father, ’tis Thy will,
The promise of that faithful word
Quickly to me fulfill!
Knowing as I am known,
How shall I love that word,
And oft repeat before the throne,
"Forever with the Lord!"
With the Lord! with the Lord!
"Forever with the Lord!"