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1 In exile here we wander:
In heaven is our abode,--
The city of the angels,
The city of our God.
And here we toil, and strive, and fight,
With sin and woe oprest;
There God will give the sons of light
Eternal joy and rest.
2 Through many sore temptations,
By many sorrows torn,
We strive to win the glory;
Our many falls we mourn.
But faith holds out the vision bright
Of our eternal home;
And hope assures the realms of light,
When we have overcome.
3 Jesu, our joy and gladness,
To Thee for aid we flee:
Give tears of true contrition;
Our souls from guilt set free:
And we shall rise in that great day,
In bodies like to Thine,
And with Thy saints, in bright array,
Shall in Thy glory shine.
4 There we, as children dwelling,
Who here as exiles groan,
God's praises shall be telling
Before His glorious throne:
There in our endless home shall rest,
From strife and sorrow free,
And join the anthem of the blest,
Forever, Lord, to Thee.
Amen.
The Hymnal: revised and enlarged as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892
First Line: | In exile here we wander |
Title: | In Exile Here We Wander |
Author: | William Cooke |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.8.6.8.6 |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
In exile here we wander. W. Cooke. [Septuagesima.] This hymn, published in the Hymnary, 1872, under the signature "A. C. C." was suggested to Canon Cooke by P. Gerhardt's "Ich bin ein Gast auf Erden" (q. v.), but it is not a translation of that hymn. It was written for the Hymnary. The alteration in Thring's Collection, 1882, of stanza iii., lines 4-8, to
"And we shall rise in that great day
In bodies like to Thine,
And with Thy saints, in bright array,
Shall in Thy glory shine."
is the author's authorized text.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)