Bible Songs — Judgment and Second Advent

Nearer My Home

One sweetly solemn thought

No. 1335
Tune NEARER MY HOME.
Words Phœbe Cary.
Music Philip Phillips, by per.
Key B-flat major
Singing key B♭ major
Time 6/8
3 stanzas

Words

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One sweetly solemn thoughtComes to me o'er and o'er;I'm nearer home to-day, to-day,Than e'er I've been before.

Chorus.

Nearer my home,Nearer my home;Nearer my home to-day, to-day,Than e'er I've been before.

Nearer my Father's house,Where many mansions be;Nearer the throne where Jesus reigns,Nearer the crystal sea.

Nearer my going home,Laying my burdens down,Leaving my cross of heavy grief,Wearing my starry crown.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1335» (large, left), title «NEARER MY HOME.» centred (condensed capitals and small capitals); under it, centred, the epigraph «" Now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly.' – Heb. 11 : 16.» — an opening double quote and a closing SINGLE quote, both kept as printed, old-style figures; on the next line «PHŒBE CARY.» at the left (the words) and «PHILIP PHILLIPS, by per.» at the right (the music, by permission). No meter, no reference line, no copyright notice. All three stanzas are interlinear, numbered «1.»–«3.», between the staves of systems 1–2; each printed line of system 1 carries two verse lines and the start of the third, given here one verse line per line («I'm nearer home to- / day, to-day,» joined across the system break: «to-day,»). «CHORUS.» (bold capitals) stands over the middle of system 2; its words begin on the second lyric line of system 2, after stanza 2's «sea.», in a lighter roman than the stanzas, and fill the one line of system 3. «solemn», «mansions», «burdens» and stanza 2's «Nearer» are printed unbroken under two notes. The print sets a thin space before «;» («o'er ;», «be ;», «home ;»); it is closed up here; curly quotes and apostrophes are written straight. Spelling and punctuation are the print's.