1. “Forever with the Lord!”
Amen, so let it be!
Life from His death is in that word
’Tis immortality.

2. Here in the body pent,
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
Thy golden gates appear!

4. Ah! then my spirit faints
To reach the land I love,
The bright inheritance of saints,
“Jerusalem above!”

5. Yet doubts still intervene,
And all my prospects fly;
Like Noah’s dove, I flit between
Rough seas and stormy sky.

6. Anon, the clouds depart,
The winds and waters cease,
While sweetly o’er my gladden’d heart
Expands the bow of peace.

7. I hear at morn and even,
At noon and midnight hour,
The choral harmonies of Heaven
Earth’s Babel tongues o’erpower;

8. Then, then I feel that He,
Remembered or forgot,
The Lord, is never far from me,
Though I perceive Him not.

9. “Forever with the Lord!”
Father, if ’tis Thy will,
The promise of that faithful word,
E’en here in me fulfill.

10. Be Thou at my right hand,
Then I shall never fail;
Uphold me, and I needs must stand,
Fight, and I shall prevail.

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

12. Knowing as I am known,
How shall I love that word,
And oft repeat before the throne,
“Forever with the Lord!”

13. The trump of final doom,
Shall speak the self-same word,
And heaven’s voice sound through the tomb,
“Forever with the Lord!”

14. That resurrection word,
That shout of victory:
Once more, “Forever with the Lord!”
Amen, so let it be!