Bible Songs — Reward of Saints

Going Home

I'm going home; the tidings come,

No. 1359
Tune GOING HOME.
Words Anon.
Music Geo. E. Lee.
Key F major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 6/8
4 stanzas

Words

I'm going home; the tidings come,And sweetly fall upon my ear;A little longer here I'll roam,And then my Saviour will appear.

Chorus.

Hail! happy day, hail! holy rest,Hail! angels, saints, and Saviour too;I'm going home, ye sighs and tears,I bid you now a long adieu.

I'm going home; this wildernessGrows brighter when my mind recallsThe glorious mansions ready made,Within fair Zion's jasper walls.

I'm going home, and cold, pale deathHas lost its terrors, since I knowMy long-lost friends shall meet me there,Where life's fair tree shall ever grow.

I'm going home, I'm going home,My heart leaps high while thus I sing;O happy day! it soon will come,And I shall see our glorious King.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1359» (large) at the left, title «GOING HOME.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials G and H); under it the epigraph in one line, «"The redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion."—Isa. 51 : 11.» (old-style figures); «ANON.» (the words) at the left and «GEO. E. LEE.» (the music) at the right above system 1, both in capitals and small capitals; under the music, centred, «By permission.» and the folio «569». No meter, no tune name other than the title, no reference line. The four stanzas are interlinear in systems 1–2, numbered «1.»–«4.» in system 1 only; «CHORUS.» (bold capitals) stands over system 3, and the chorus words are printed once, between the staves of systems 3–4; the chorus is sung after every stanza. Each stanza is given here in its four verse lines (each printed line holds two of them; the capitals of the print mark them) and the chorus in four. Words divided under the notes are joined («go-ing», «tid-ings», «sweet-ly», «up-on», «wil-der-ness», «re-calls», «ter-rors», «lit-tle», «long-er», «Sav-iour», «ap-pear», «read-y», «With-in», «Zi-on's», «jas-per», «ev-er», «hap-py», «glo-rious», «ho-ly», «an-gels», «a-dieu»); «long-lost» is the printed compound. «brighter», «glorious» and «mansions» (stanza 2) are printed whole under their two notes. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» and around the colon of «51 : 11»; it is closed up here; quotation marks and apostrophes are written straight. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's («Saviour», «Zion's», «adieu»).