Christ My Song - 825

One with Christ – within the golden City - The end of the journey Priest (Frances Bevan/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

The end of the journey.

1 Corinthians 6,17.

1. One with Christ – within the golden City
welcomed long ago,
when for me he passed within the glory
from the depths below. (PDF - Midi)

2. Still the gladness of that blessed welcome,
mystery of that kiss,
meeting of the Son and of the Father,
floods my soul with bliss.

3. That sweet welcome mine – and mine for ever
that eternal Home,
whereunto when all these wanderings over,
I shall surely come –

4. There my heart is resting, and is joyful,
with a joy untold –
earth's dark ways lit up with that fair glory,
gleam as streets of gold.

5. Words of blessed greeting as I wander
fall upon my ear;
as a song aloft in palace towers,
deep, and sweet, and clear,

6. in the midnight steals o'er him who saileth
on a lonely sea,
then I know I near the blessed country
where he waits for me.

7. God, my Father, waiteth there to greet me,
child of his delight;
in the well-beloved Son presented
faultless in his sight.

8. Loved with all the love that fills the heavens
with eternal song –
weep not, weary heart – how short the sorrow,
and the love how long!

C. P. C.

Frances Bevan, Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso and others 1, 1899, 151-152.