Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1848
Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: I'm a pilgrim and I'm a stranger
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Tune: A Pilgrim and a Stranger
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 078, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI'm a pilgrim and I'm a stranger,
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night;
Do not detain me, for I am going,
To where the fountains are ever flowing.
There the glory is ever shining!
O, my longing heart is there;
Here in this country so dark and dreary,
I long have wandered forlorn and weary.
I'm a pilgrim and I'm a stranger,
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.
There's the city to which I journey;
My Redeemer, me Redeemer is its light!
There is no sorrow, nor any sighing,
Nor any tears there, nor any dying!
I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger, &c.
Farewell, neighbors, with tears I've warned you,
I must leave you, I must leave you and be gone!
With this your portion, your hearts' desire -
Why will you perish in raging fire?
I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger, &c.
Father, mother and sister, brother!
If you will not journey with me I must go!
Now since your vain hopes you will thus cherish,
Should I too linger and with you perish?
I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger, &c.
Farewell, dreary earth, by sin so blighted,
In immortal beauty soon you'll be arrayed!
He who has formed thee, will soon restore thee!
And then thy dread curse shall never more be: --
I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger,
Till thy rest shall end the weary pilgrim's night.