for ever with the lord

For ever with the Lord!

Amen, so let it be;

life from the dead is in that word,

„This immortality.

Here in the body pent,

absent from Him I roam,

yet nightly pitch my moving tent,

a day‟s march nearer home.




My Father‟s house on high,

home of my soul; how near

at times to faith‟s foreseeing eye

Thy golden gates appear:

my thirsty spirit faints

to reach the land I love;

the bright inheritance of saints,

Jerusalem above.




For ever with the Lord!

Father, if „This Thy will,

the promise of that faithful word

e‟en here to me fulfil!

Be Thou at my right hand,

then can I never fail;

uphold Thou me so I shall stand,

fight, and I must prevail.




So, when my latest breath

shall rend the veil in twain,

by death I shall escape from death

and life eternal gain.

Knowing as I am known,

how shall I love that word!

And oft repeat before the throne:

For ever with the Lord!