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Hymn: How happy is the pilgrim's lot (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: How happy is the pilgrim's lot

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: C Wesley

Composer:

Meter: CPM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1061

Page Number: 627, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

How happy is the pilgrim's lot!

How free from every anxious thought,

From worldly hope and fear!

Confined to neither court nor cell,

His soul disdains on earth to dwell-

He only sojourns here.



This happiness in part is mine,

Already saved from low design,

From every creature - love;

Blest with the scorn of finite good,

My soul is lightened of its load,

And seeks the things above.



There is my house and portion fair;

My treasure and my heart are there,

And my abiding home;

For me my elder brethren stay,

And angels beckon me away,

And Jesus bids me come.



I come, thy servant, Lord, replies;

I come to meet thee in the skies,

And claim my heavenly rest!

Soon will the pilgrim's journey end;

Then, O my Saviour, Brother, Friend,

Receive me to thy breast!