[Music]
O when shall I see Jesus
And reign with him above,
And from the flowing fountain
Drink everlasting love,
And to glory I will go,
And to glory I will go, will go, will go,
And to glory I will go.
The words are by John Leland. The old tune seems to have been wedded
to the above text by E. L. King, about 1844, according to the
_Original Sacred Harp_. John G. McCurry applied the same tune to a
text beginning:
I'd rather live a beggar
While here on earth I stay
and ending with the refrain
And to begging I will go.
See 'Beggar' in this collection where there are references to the
seventeenth century prototype of the above song. Further stanzas of
the above spiritual text are given under 'Faithful Soldier'.
No. 152
GOLDEN HARP or TO PLAY ON THE GOLDEN HARP, OSH 274