The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book ‎#1150

1150. I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger

1 I'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.
I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger;
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.

2 There the glory is ever shining!
O, my longing heart, my longing heart is there;
Here in this country so dark and dreary,
I long have wandered, forlorn and weary,

3 There's the city to which I journey;
My Redeemer, my Redeemer is its light!
There is no sorrow, nor any sighing,
Nor any tears there, nor any dying.

4 Farewell, neighbors, with tears I've warned you,
I must leave you, I must leave you, and be gone!
With this your portion, your heart's desire,
Why will you perish in raging fire?

5 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?

6 Farewell, drear earth, by sin so blighted,
In immortal beauty soon you'll be arrayed;
He who has formed thee, will soon restore thee,
And then the dread curse shall never more be.

Text Information

• First Line: I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger
• Author: Mary S. B. Dana
• Publication Date: 1886
• Topic: Miscellaneous: Old Melodies

Tune Information

• Name: I'M A PILGRIM
• Key: G Major or modal
• Source: Arranged