Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Now as long as here I roam
Topic: The New Life/Trust and Joy
Writer: <no first name given> Gerhardt
Composer:
Meter: 7s peculiar
Tune:
Hymn Number: 799
Page Number: 467, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsNow as long as here I roam,
On this earth have house and home,
Shall the light of love from thee
Shine through 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.