213. Forever with the Lord

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
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
Name: SCHUMANN
Meter: SM
Key: G Major
Source: Cantica Laudis, Boston, 1850



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