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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Return O wanderer (FL)

Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book

Date: 1882

Compiler: Fillmore Brothers

Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers

First Line: Return O wanderer

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: W Collver

Composer: A Fillmore

Meter: CM with chorus

Tune: Passing Away

Hymn Number: 565

Page Number: 205, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

RETURN, O wanderer, now return,
And seek thy Father's face:
Those new desires which in thee burn
Were kindled by his grace.


Return, O wanderer, now return:
He hears thy humble sigh;
He see thy softened spirit mourn,
When no one else is nigh.


Return, O wanderer, now return:
Thy Saviour bids thee live:
Go to his feet, and grateful learn
How freely he'll forgive.


Return, O wanderer, now return,
And wipe the falling tear:
Thy Father calls-no longer mourn:
'Tis love invites thee near.