At the Fountain

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A wanderer weary over the toilsome way

Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Tune: [A wanderer weary over the toilsome way]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 A wanderer weary o’er the toilsome way,
I long for fountains pure and sweet,
I seek in the shade of Elim’s cooling palms,
To find a safe and calm retreat.

Chorus:
I would linger, I would linger,
At the fountain pure and cool and sweet,
I would linger, I would linger,
In the love of Christ is rest complete.

2 Oh long have I groaned beneath my load of care,
A pilgrim in a stranger land,
I cried for a friend who would my burden share,
Yet no one reached a helping hand. [Chorus]

3 I called till the sunset in the golden west,
Betokened daylight near its close,
A soft whisper said, “Oh come to Me and rest,
In Me thy soul shall find repose.” [Chorus]

Source: Gems and Jewels #60

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Author: Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman

Pseudonym: Grace Glenn; Lucinda M. Beal Bateman lived in Ionia, Michigan. She wrote A book of rhymes to suit the times published about 1886 by N. Chapin & Son (Chicago); Gleams of gold published about 1889, and The prohibition speaker: a collection of readings, recitations, dialogues, tableux and songs for temperance and prohibition entertainments published in 1889 by Filmore Bros. (Cincinnati). She married Zadoc Henry Bateman in 1875. They had one daughter, Grace. Dianne Shapiro, from "A book of rhymes to suit the times" and "The Genealogy of Dennis Bowen Caskey and Michelle Lynn Smith" (caskey-family.com/genhome, retrieved 7-1-2018) Go to person page >

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First Line:	A wanderer weary over the toilsome way
Title:	At the Fountain
Author:	Mrs. L. M. Beal Bateman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I would linger, I would linger
Copyright:	Public Domain