"FOREVER WITH THE LORD!"
Reading edition
"Forever with the Lord!" So, Jesus, let it be; Life from the dead is in that word; 'Tis immortality. Here, in the body pent, Absent from thee 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 aspiring eye, Thy golden gates appear! "Forever with the Lord!" Father, if 'tis thy will, The promise of thy gracious word Ev'n here to me fulfill. —James Montgomery.