Adventist Pioneer Library

Waiting for Christ

Home, home, beameth before us!

  • No. 832
  • Words Anon.
  • 5 stanzas
  • Words only in the original

Words

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1

Home, home, beameth before us!When, when, shall we be there?Long, long, here we have wandered,Burdened with sorrow and care:Home, home, home, home,—Sorrow breathes not in its air.

2

Home, home, there in thy bowers,Sweet, sweet music shall swell;Sin, sin, never can enter;Peace in each bosom shall dwell:Home, home, home, home,—Peace in each bosom shall dwell.

3

Home, home, rest to the weary,Peace, peace, to the torn breast;Hope, hope, hope of the erring;There in thy bosom we'll rest!Home, home, home, home,—There will the wanderers rest.

4

Home, home, bliss to the parted;Friends, friends, meet on its shore;Here, here, lonely they've left us;Soon we'll be parted no more:Home, home, home, home,—Friends will be parted no more.

5

Home, home, let us now hasten,See, see, angels above!Hark! hark! now do they call us,Home to their dwelling of love:Home, home, home, home,—Home of our Father's kind love.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «832» at the head of the right column of p. 273, beside the stanzas of hymn 831; no tune line, no reference line and no meter are printed (the stanzas scan 7.6.7.7.4.7 — the meter «7s 6s & 4.» of 831 GLAD TIDINGS, printed on the same page). Five numbered stanzas, «Anon.» in italics at the end. In stanza 1 «HOME» is set in capitals and small capitals after the figure «1». In each stanza lines 2, 4 and 6 are indented and line 5 («Home, home, home, home,—») is indented further. The print sets a thin space before «!», «?», «;» and «:» («us !», «there ?», «care :», «swell ;», «enter ;», «dwell :», «breast ;», «erring ;», «rest !», «parted ;», «shore ;», «us ;», «more :», «love :»); it is closed up here, as is the space inside «we 'll» (stanza 4, line 4). The printer's curly apostrophes are written straight («we'll», «they've», «Father's»). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.

Source
The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Battle Creek: Review & Herald, 1886/1888)
Where
Waiting for Christ · No. 832 · printed page 273
Checked
lyrics verified (fork reading; parent check pending) · 2026-10-02