In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:2
Words & Music: H. E. Engle, in The New Starry Crown, edited by Aldine S. Kieffer (Singer’s Glen, Virginia: Ruebush, Kieffer, 1877), page 76 (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know Engle’s full name, or where to get a good photo of him (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
There’s a beautiful land far beyond the sky,
And Jesus, my Savior, is there;
He has gone to prepare me a home on high—
Oh, I long, oh, I long to be there!
Refrain
In that beautiful land,
Where the angels stand,
We shall meet, we shall meet,
We shall meet in that beautiful land.
I have friends who have gone to that land on high,
They are free from all sorrow and care;
And I trust I shall meet them above the sky—
Oh, I long, oh, I long to be there!
Refrain
We shall meet in that beautiful land on high,
And be with the bright and the fair;
Where the waters of life sweetly murmur by—
Oh, I long, oh, I long to be there!
Refrain