Sacred Melodies #d119
Display Title: I'm going home, I'm going home First Line: This life's a dream, an empty show Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Date: 1879
Sacred Melodies #d119
1 This life's a dream, an empty show;
But the bright world to which I go
Hath joys substantial and sincere;
When shall I wake and find me there?
2 O glorious hour! O blest abode!
I shall be near and like my God,
And flesh and sense no more control
The sacred pleasures of the soul.
3 My flesh shall slumber in the ground
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise,
And in my Saviour's image rise.
Hymnal: according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1871
First Line: | This life's a dream, an empty show |
Title: | This Life's a dream, an empty show |
Author: | Isaac Watts |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
This life's a dream, an empty show. Part of “Lord, I am Thine, but Thou wilt prove," p. 689, i.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)