'For ever with the Lord!' <br />Amen, so let it be; <br />Life from the dead is in that word, <br />'Tis immortality. <br /> <br />Here in the body pent, <br />Absent from Him I roam; <br />Yet nightly pitch my moving tent <br />A day's march nearer home. <br /> <br />My father's house on high, <br />Home of my soul, how near; <br />At times to faith's foreseeing eye, <br />Thy golden gates appear! <br /> <br />In darkness as in light <br />Hidden alike from view, <br />I sleep, I wake within his sight <br />Who looks existence through. <br /> <br />From the dim hour of birth, <br />Through every changing state <br />Of mortal pilgrimage on earth, <br />Till its appointed date; <br /> <br />All that I am, have been, <br />All that I yet may be, <br />He sees at once, as He hath seen, <br />And shall for ever see. <br /> <br />Be Thou at my right hand, <br />Then can I never fail; <br />Uphold Thou me, and I shall stand, <br />Fight, and I must prevail.<br /><br />James Montgomery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-ever-with-the-lord/
