Hope in Heaven

Verse 1

When pulse beats low and cheeks grow pale, And storms of life are fiercely driv’n; When fairest prospects quickly fail, How sweet to have a hope in heav’n!

Chorus

A hope in heav’n, How sweet to have a hope in heav’n!

Verse 2

When friends that seemed most near and dear, Are from our bosom swiftly riv’n, And life’s bright joys in gloom appear, How sweet to have a hope in heav’n!

Verse 3

When lone and wand’ring far from home, No kind relief to us is giv’n, Oh, what would then of us become, If we had not a hope in heav’n?

Verse 4

And when the end is drawing nigh, Of life thro’ which we long have striv’n, And we at last must droop and die, How sweet to have a hope in heav’n!