There Is A Home Eternal
- Words:
- H. R. Palmer
- Music:
- H. R. Palmer
Sheet music
- 1There is a home eternalBeautiful and bright,Where sweet joys supernalNever are dimmed by night;White-robed angels are singingEver around the bright throne;When, O, when shall I see thee,Beautiful, beautiful home?Home, beautiful home!(Beautiful home,)Bright, beautiful home!(Beautiful home,)Bright home of our Savior,(Beautiful)Bright, beautiful home!
- 2Flowers are ever springingIn that home so fair.Little children singingPraises to Jesus there.How they swell the glad anthemEver around the bright throne.When, O, when shall I see thee,Beautiful, beautiful home?Home, beautiful home!(Beautiful home,)Bright, beautiful home!(Beautiful home,)Bright home of our Savior,(Beautiful)Bright, beautiful home!
- 3Soon shall I join the ransomed,Far beyond the sky;Christ is my salvation,Why should I fear to die?Soon my eyes shall beholdGod Seated upon the bright throne;Then, O, then shall I see thee,Beautiful, beautiful home?Home, beautiful home!(Beautiful home,)Bright, beautiful home!(Beautiful home,)Bright home of our Savior,(Beautiful)Bright, beautiful home!
In the hymnals
- The words are in 60 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.