You help make Hymnary.org possible.

In 2025, more than 10 million people from 200+ countries found hymns, liturgical resources, and encouragement here. If Hymnary has meant something to you this year, would you take a moment to help sustain it? A gift of any size — and a note of encouragement, if you'd like to share one — directly supports the server costs, research, and curation that keep this resource freely available to the world.

Give securely online today, or mail a check to:
Hymnary.org (c/o Calvin University)
3201 Burton Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Thank you for being part of this important online ministry resource.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:Far from My Heavenly Home
Author:Henry F. Lyte
Tune:ST. BRIDE
Composer:Samuel Howard
Media:MIDI file

1509. Far from My Heavenly Home

1. Far from my heavenly home,
Far from my Father’s breast,
Fainting I cry, blest Spirit, come
And speed me to my rest.

2. Upon the willows long
My harp has silent hung:
How should I sing a cheerful song
Till Thou inspire my tongue?

3. My spirit homeward turns
And fain would thither flee;
My heart, O Zion, droops and yearns,
When I remember thee.

4. To thee, to thee I press,
A dark and toilsome road;
When shall I pass the wilderness,
And reach the saint’s abode?

5. God of my life, be near;
On Thee my hopes I cast:
O guide me through the desert here,
And bring me home at last.

Text Information
First Line: Far from my heavenly home
Title: Far from My Heavenly Home
Author: Henry F. Lyte (1834)
Meter: SM
Language: English
Source: Spirit of the Psalms, 1834
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: LYTE, John B. Wilkes, 1861
Tune Information
Name: ST. BRIDE
Composer: Samuel Howard (1762)
Meter: SM
Incipit: 15132 13735 43543
Key: g minor
Copyright: Public Domain



Media
Adobe Acrobat image: Adobe Acrobat image
(Cyber Hymnal)
MIDI file: MIDI File
(Cyber Hymnal)
Noteworthy Composer score: Noteworthy Composer score
(Cyber Hymnal)
XML score: XML score
More media are available on the tune authority page.

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.