Voyaging

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This life is an ocean, and each has his bark

Author: Sophia T. Griswold
Tune: [This life is an ocean, and each has his bark]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 This life is an ocean, and each has his bark,
We all have a compass to guide in the dark;
We have a bright star eighteen centuries old,
We have a strong anchor more precious than gold.

Refrain:
Voyaging, voyaging over the foam,
Oh, may we all anchor in heaven our home.

2 This one has forgotten his watch upon deck,
And there is his bark ‘mid the breakers a wreck;
This one without chart of the winds is the sport,
Fast drifting away from the heavenly port. [Refrain]

3 There is the safe haven a little way on,
Keep steady the helm till the harbor is won;
Through all the night long though the billows have roared,
We’ve known not a fear for the Pilot’s on board. [Refrain]

Source: Wondrous Love: A Collection of Songs and Services for Sunday Schools #67

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Author: Sophia T. Griswold

Sophia (Paulina) Taylor Griswold Canada/USA 1828-1903. Born in Canada, she moved to the U.S. and lived in Chicago, IL. She married Dr William R Griswold, a native of New York, and they had one daughter, Eva. She was a poet who wrote hymn lyrics for tunes composed by hymnists George Root, Philip Bliss, George Stebbins and others. She died in Chicago. John Perry Go to person page >

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First Line:	This life is an ocean, and each has his bark
Title:	Voyaging
Author:	Sophia T. Griswold
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Voyaging, voyaging over the foam
Copyright:	Public Domain