Text: | Forever with the Lord |
Author: | James Montgomery, 1771-1854 |
Tune: | SCHUMANN |
1 Forever with the Lord!
Amen! So let it be.
Life from the dead is in that word,
My immortality.
2 While time on earth is spent,
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 Lord, be at my right hand,
Then can I never fail.
If you uphold me, I shall stand;
With you I shall prevail.
5 So when my dying breath
Shall rend the veil in two,
By death I shall escape from death
To endless life with you.
6 I'll know as I am known;
How shall I love that word
And oft repeat before the throne,
"Forever with the Lord!"
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Forever with the Lord! |
Title: | Forever with the Lord |
Author: | James Montgomery, 1771-1854 (1771-1854, abr., alt.) |
Meter: | SM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | End Time |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SCHUMANN |
Meter: | SM |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | Cantica Laudis, Boston, 1850 |