Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition

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541 Home of the Blest

Words: Missionary Minstrel, 1826

Music: D. W. DeLong, 1859

Meter: Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)

Why should our tears in sorrow flow
When God recalls His own,
And bids them leave a world of woe
For an eternal home?
Their toils are past, their work is done,
And they are fully blest,
They fought the fight, the vict’ry won,
And entered into rest.