THE HOMELAND! O THE HOMELAND!
"In my Father's house are many rooms...I am going there to prepare a
place for you." John 14:2
Words: Hugh Reginald Haweis. Appeared in College Hymnal (1897) and in
the Prebysterian New Psalms and Hymns (Richmond, Virginia, 1901); the
latter gives the date of authorship as 1855.
Music: "Homeland," Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1843-1900).
The Homeland! O the Homeland! The land of souls free born!
No gloomy night is known there, but only fadeless morn:
I'm sighing for that country, my heart is aching here;
There is no pain in the Homeland to which I'm drawing near.
My Lord is in the Homeland, with angels bright and fair;
No sinful thing nor evil, can ever enter there;
The music of the ransomed is ringing in my ears,
And when I think of the Homeland, my eyes are wet with tears.
For loved ones in the Homeland are waiting me to come,
Where neither death nor sorrow invades their holy home:
O dear, dear native country! O rest and peace above!
Christ bring us all to the Homeland, of His eternal love.