2. Fair land!-could mortal eyes
But half its charms explore,
How would our spirits long to rise,
And dwell on earth no more!

3. No cloud those regions know,-
Realms ever bright and fair;
For sin, the source of mortal wo,
Can never enter there.

4. O may the prospect fire

Our hearts with ardent love,

Till wings of faith, and strong desire, Bear every thought above.

5. Prepared, by grace divine,

For thy bright courts on high, Lord, bid our spirits rise and join The chorus of the sky.

145.

At home in heaven.

1. Forever with the Lord!

Amen, so let it be!

Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality.

2. Forever with the Lord!
Father, if 't is thy will,
The promise of that faithful word,
E'en here to me fulfil.

3. So when my latest breath

Shall rend the veil in twain, By death I shall escape from death, And life eternal gain.

4. Knowing as I am known,

How shall I love that word, And oft repeat before the throne, Forever with the Lord!

Solemn thoughts on the future. 1. And am I born to die? To lay this body down? And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown?2. A land of deepest shade, Unpierced by human thought; The dreary regions of the dead, Where all things are forgot! 3. Soon as from earth I go,

What will become of me? Eternal happiness or wo

Must then my portion be:

4. Waked by the trumpet's sound,
I from my grave shall rise,
And see the Judge, with glory crown'd,
And see the flaming skies!

147.

How shall I leave my tomb? 1. How shall I leave my tombWith triumph or regret? A fearful or a joyful doom, A curse or blessing, meet? 2. Will angel bands convey

Their brother to the bar? Or devils drag my soul away,

To meet its sentence there?

3. Who can resolve the doubt

That tears my anxious breast? Shall I be with the damn'd cast out, Or number'd with the blest?

4. I must from God be driven,
Or with my Saviour dwell;
Must come at his command to heaven,
Or else-depart to hell!