Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Now as long as here I roam (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: Now as long as here I roam

Topic: The New Life/Trust and Joy

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: T Cook

Meter: 7s peculiar

Tune: Wyatt

Hymn Number: 579

Page Number: 211, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Now as long as here I roam,

On this earth have house and home,

Shall the light of love from thee

Shine thro' all my memory,

To my God I yet will cling,

All my life the praises sing,

That from thankful hearts outspring.



Every sorrow, every smart,

That the Father's loving heart

Hath appointed me of yore,

Or hath yet for me in store,

As my life flows on I'll take;

Calmly, gladly for his sake,

No more faithless murmurs make.



I will meet distress and pain,

I will greet e'en death's dark reign,

I will lay me in the grave,

With a heart still glad and brave;

Whom the strongest doth defend,

Whom the highest counts his friend,

Can not perish in the end.