"Dear Home" (9 June 1868)
S. M. [a hymn in standard meter]
by Thomas Martin Towne, 1835-1912

[Source: page 212, from "New Tunes" 
in "The Triumph" by George F. Root]

1.
Forever with the Lord,
Amen so let it be!
Life from the dead is in the word,
'Tis immortality.

2.
Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam;
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent,
A day's march nearer home.