A city we seek from above,
Our proper and permanent home,
From whence we shall never remove,
An heavenly city to come:
And while we are travelling on,
The King of the place we shall spy,
And mount, as the city comes down,
And meet in the midst of the sky.
A city we seek from above
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We seek a city to come.”—[Heb.] xiii. 14. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 162.
Publishing: Public Domain