Chapter 22

HEAVEN IS MY HOME.

“I’mbut a stranger here;Heaven is my home:Earth is a desert drear;Heaven is my home:Danger and sorrow standRound me on every handHeaven is my fatherland,Heaven is my home.“What though the tempests rage?Heaven is my home:Short is my pilgrimage;Heaven is my home:And time’s wild wintry blastSoon will be overpast;I shall reach home at last.Heaven is my home.“Therefore I murmur not;Heaven is my home:Whate’er my earthly lot,Heaven is my home:And I shall surely standThere at my Lord’s right hand:Heaven is my fatherland,Heaven is my home.”

“I’mbut a stranger here;Heaven is my home:Earth is a desert drear;Heaven is my home:Danger and sorrow standRound me on every handHeaven is my fatherland,Heaven is my home.“What though the tempests rage?Heaven is my home:Short is my pilgrimage;Heaven is my home:And time’s wild wintry blastSoon will be overpast;I shall reach home at last.Heaven is my home.“Therefore I murmur not;Heaven is my home:Whate’er my earthly lot,Heaven is my home:And I shall surely standThere at my Lord’s right hand:Heaven is my fatherland,Heaven is my home.”

“I’mbut a stranger here;Heaven is my home:Earth is a desert drear;Heaven is my home:Danger and sorrow standRound me on every handHeaven is my fatherland,Heaven is my home.

“I’mbut a stranger here;

Heaven is my home:

Earth is a desert drear;

Heaven is my home:

Danger and sorrow stand

Round me on every hand

Heaven is my fatherland,

Heaven is my home.

“What though the tempests rage?Heaven is my home:Short is my pilgrimage;Heaven is my home:And time’s wild wintry blastSoon will be overpast;I shall reach home at last.Heaven is my home.

“What though the tempests rage?

Heaven is my home:

Short is my pilgrimage;

Heaven is my home:

And time’s wild wintry blast

Soon will be overpast;

I shall reach home at last.

Heaven is my home.

“Therefore I murmur not;Heaven is my home:Whate’er my earthly lot,Heaven is my home:And I shall surely standThere at my Lord’s right hand:Heaven is my fatherland,Heaven is my home.”

“Therefore I murmur not;

Heaven is my home:

Whate’er my earthly lot,

Heaven is my home:

And I shall surely stand

There at my Lord’s right hand:

Heaven is my fatherland,

Heaven is my home.”


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