ELHB Hymn 562
The Homeland! O the Homeland!
Hugh R. Haweis (1872)
Hymn Text
562. The Homeland! O the Homeland!
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1 The Homeland! O the Homeland!
The land of souls free born!
No gloomy night is known there,
But aye the 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.
The land of souls free born!
No gloomy night is known there,
But aye the 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.
2 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.
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.
Source noted on Hymnary: Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-book #562