Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal · No. 444 · Words: Mary S.B. Dana
I'm a Pilgrim
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Verse 1
I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger;
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night;
Do not detain me, for I am going
To where the fountains are ever flowing.
Refrain
I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger;
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.
Verse 2
There the glory is ever shining!
O, my longing heart, my longing heart is there;
Here in this country so dark and dreary,
I long have wandered forlorn and weary.
Refrain
I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger;
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.
Verse 3
There's the city to which I journey;
My Redeemer, my Redeemer is its light!
There is no sorrow, nor any sighing,
Nor any tears there, or any dying.
Refrain
I'm a pilgrim, and I'm a stranger;
I can tarry, I can tarry but a night.
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