1 Oh, tell me no more
Of this world's vain store;
The time for such trifles with me is now o'er.
2 A country I've found
Where true joys abound,
To dwell I'm determined on that happy ground.
3 The souls which believe
In paradise live,
And me in that number will Jesus receive.
4 No longer I stay,
He calls me away:
I follow thee, Saviour, and bless the glad day.
5 And when I'm to die,
Receive me, I'll cry,
For life everlasting for me thou didst buy.
Source: The Voice of Praise: a collection of hymns for the use of the Methodist Church #1027
First Line: | O tell me no more Of this world's vain store |
Title: | Come Thou with Us |
German Title: | Ach sagt mir nichts von eiteln Schätzen |
Translator: | John Gambold |
Author: | Benjamin Schmolck |
Meter: | 10.11.10.11 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
O tell me no more Of this world's vain store. J. Gambold. [Peace with God.] Appeared in the English Moravian Hymn Book, 1742, No. 107, in 14 stanzas of 4 lines. In the 1886 ed., No. 488, it is reduced to 11 stanzas, and also slightly altered.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)