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145. Onward to Our Heavenly Home

1 This is not my place of resting,
There's a city yet to come;
Onward to it I am hastening,
On to my eternal home.

Refrain:
Farewell, then, all earthly treasures,
Farewell, all its empty pleasures;
Onward, onward, we are passing,
Onward to our heavenly home.

2 In it all is light and glory;
O'er it shines a nightless day:
Every trace of sin's sad story,
All the curse, hath passed away. [Refrain]

3 There the Lamb, our Shepherd, lead us,
By the streams of life along,—
In the freshest pasture feeds us,
Turns our sighing into song. [Refrain]

4 Soon we pass this desert dreary,
Soon we bid farewell to pain;
Never more then, sad or weary,
Never, never sin again. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: This is not my place of resting
Title: Onward to Our Heavenly Home
Author: Rev. H. Bonar, D.D.
Refrain First Line: Farewell, then, all earthly treasures
Language: English
Publication Date: 1875
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: [This is not my place of resting]
Composer: Karl Reden
Notes: Public Domain.



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