Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: I am a pilgrim I am a stranger (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist

Date: 1850

Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard

First Line: I am a pilgrim I am a stranger

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Hymn Number: 57

Page Number: 079, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

I AM a pilgrim, I am a stranger;

I can tarry, I can tarry but a night:

Do not detain me, for I am going

To where the streamlets are ever flowing.

I am a pilgrim, I am a stranger, &c.



Of that temple to which I am going,

My Redeemer, my Redeemer is the light;

Within a country unknown and dreary,

I've been wandering forlorn and weary.

I am a pilgrim, I am a stranger, &c.



There the sunbeams are ever shining-

I am longing, I am longing for the sight;

There is no sorrow or any sighing,

Nor any sin there, nor any dying.

I am a pilgrim, I am a stranger, &c.



There the wicked cease from troubling,

And the weary, and the weary are at rest;

There is nor mourning, nor any grief there,

Nor any weeping, as when we part here.

I am a pilgrim, I am a stranger, &c.



If we are holy, we shall meet there,

And we never, and we never more shall part;

But with angels and spirits holy,

We will join with the meek and lowly.

Once a pilgrim, once a stranger,

Now an angel, and a blessed child of light.