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477. Forever with the Lord

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

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

3 "Forever with the Lord!"
Father if 'tis Thy will,
The promise of that faithful word,
E'en here to me fulfill.

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

5 Knowing 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
Meter: SM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2011
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: The Christian Life: Death and Life Eternal; Evening; Heaven (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: ST. THOMAS
Composer: Aaron Williams, 1736-1776
Meter: SM
Key: F Major or modal
Source: The New Universal Psalmodist, 1770



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