Heaven
I'm But A Stranger Here
- Words:
- Thomas Rawson Taylor, 1836.
- Music:
- 'St. Edmund (Sullivan)' Arthur Seymour Sullivan, 1872.
- Setting:
- "Church Praise, with Tunes", 1885.
- Metre:
- 6 4 6 4 6 6 6 4
- 1I'm but a stranger here,Heav'n is my home;Earth is a desert drear,Heav'n is my home.Danger and sorrow standround me on every hand;Heav'n is my fatherland,Heav'n is my home.
- 2What though the tempest rage,Heav'n is my home;Short is my pilgrimage,Heav'n is my home;Time's wild and wintry blastsoon shall be over past;I shall reach home at last,Heav'n is my home.
- 3There at my Savior's sideHeav'n is my home;I shall be glorified,Heav'n is my home.There are the good and blest,those I loved most and best;There, too, I soon shall rest,Heav'n is my home.
- 4Therefore I murmur not,Heav'n is my home;Whate'er my earthly lot,Heav'n is my home;And I shall surely standthere at my Lord's right hand.Heav'n is my fatherland,Heav'n is my home.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1835, the words are in 667 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, St. Edmund (Sullivan), is in 271 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.