Makes the banquet sweeter still.
Now I go to heaven’s door,
Asking for a little more;
Jesus gives a double share,
Calling me his chosen heir.
Goodness, running like a stream
Through the new Jerusalem;
By its constant breaking forth
Sweetens earth and heaven both.
Two more stanzas are in the Revivalist. The relationship between this tune and that of Stephen Foster’s ‘Long-Ago Day’ was noted by me in The Musical Quarterly, vol. xxii., No. 2.