Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: I've wandered long in folly's maze (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist

Date: 1848

Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard

First Line: I've wandered long in folly's maze

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: S Leonard

Composer: S Leonard

Meter: 8 and 6

Tune: Hibernia

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 098, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

I've wandered long in folly's maze,

Wildly pursuing sweets that cloy,

And madly tracing sins dark ways,

Which lead but to destroy;

But now by faith I trace the way,

The narrow path to life and light,

Which leads to everlasting day,

To climes of pure delight.



Farewell, farewell, ye joys of earth,

I'm on my way to heaven above;

Ijoin not in your noisy mirth,

I sing my Saviour's love:

I sing the hope that lifts to heaven,

The place where Jesus is.



Farewell to sorrow, toil, and care,

And sin a final full adieu;

My heart's in heaven, my treasure's there;

I've Canaan's land in view.

Loved ones have gone to that blest land

Who oft have joined with me in prayer;

I long to join that glorious band,

And dwell forever there.