Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: I'm but a stranger here
Topic: Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> Taylor
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: 6s and 4s double
Tune: Oak
Hymn Number: 588
Page Number: 219, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI'M BUT a stranger here,
Heaven is my home;
Earth is a desert drear,
Heaven is my home;
Danger and sorrow stand
Round me on every hand;
Heaven is my father-land-
Heaven is my home.
What though the tempest rage!
Heaven is my home;
Short is my pilgrimage,
Heaven is my home.
And time's wild wintry blast
Soon will be overpast;
I shall reach home at last-
Heaven is my home.
There, at my Saviour's side-
Heaven is my home-
I shall be glorified;
Heaven is my home.
There with the good and blest,
Those I loved most and best,
I shall forever rest-
Heaven is my home.