So near to heaven’s eternal joys?
3 Shall aught beguile us on the road,
While we are walking back to God?
For strangers into life we come,
And dying is but going home.
4 Welcome, sweet hour of full discharge,
That sets our longing souls at large,
Unbinds our chains, breaks up our cell,
And gives us with our God to dwell.
5 To dwell with God, to feel his love,