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HYMN.

[This is not my place of resting]

We seek one to come. —Heb. xiii. 14.

This is not my place of resting,
Mine's a city yet to come;
Onwards to it I am hasting—
On to my eternal home.
In it all is light and glory,
O'er it shines a nightless day;
Every trace of sin's sad story,
All the curse, has pass'd away.

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There the Lamb our Shepherd leads us,
By the streams of life along;
On the freshest pastures feeds us,
Turns our sighing into song.
Soon we pass this desert dreary,
Soon we bid farewell to pain;
Never more be sad or weary,
Never, never sin again.