My Fatherland

Verse 1

There is a place where my hopes are stay’d, My heart and my treasure are there; Where verdure and blossoms never fade, And fields are eternal fair.

Chorus

That blissful place is my fatherland; By faith its delights I explore; Come, favor my flight, angelic band, And waft me in peace to the shore.

Verse 2

There is a place where the angels dwell— A pure and a peaceful abode; The joys of that place no tongue can tell; For there is the palace of God!

Verse 3

There is a place where my friends have gone Who suffered and worshiped with me, Exalted with Christ, high on His throne, The King in His beauty they see.

Verse 4

There is a place where I hope to live, When life and its labors are o’er; A place which the Lord to me will give, And then I shall sorrow no more.