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Text:While thro' this world we roam
Author:James Montgomery
Tune:GERAR
Composer:L. Mason

201b. While thro' this world we roam

1 While thro’ this world we roam,
From infancy to age,
Heav’n is the Christian pilgrim’s home,
His rest at ev’ry stage.

2 Thither his soul ascends,
Eternal joys to share;
There his adoring spirit bends,
While here he kneels in prayer.

3 His freed affections rise,
To fix on things above,
Where all his hope of glory lies,—
Where all is perfect love.

4 There we our treasure place,
There let our hearts be found;
That still, where sin abounded, grace
May more and more abound.

5 Henceforth our converse be
With Christ before the throne;
Ere long we eye to eye shall see
And know as we are known.

Text Information
First Line: While thro' this world we roam
Author: James Montgomery
Language: English
Publication Date: 1885
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: GERAR
Composer: L. Mason
Notes: Public Domain.



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