The 19th century hymn "I'm but a stranger here", to the 1872 tune "St. Edmund" (or "Fatherland") by Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900), played by Peter Tylor on the pipe organ at St Levan's Church, Porthpean, near St Austell, Cornwall (NPOR R00025), 27/11/2021.
I'm but 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 tempest rage,
Heaven is my home;
Short is my pilgrimage,
Heaven is my home:
And time's wild wintry blast
Soon shall be overpast;
I shall reach home at last,
Heaven is my home.
There at my Saviour's side,
Heaven is my home;
I shall be glorified,
Heaven is my home.
There are the good and blest,
Those I love most and best;
And there I too shall rest,
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.
(Words by Thomas Rawson Taylor, 1807-1835)
Although this hymn was on my "to do" list, I did not originally plan to record it today; however, its references to the "tempest" and "time's wild wintry blast" made it somewhat appropriate, given that this was a bitterly cold and windy afternoon, coinciding with the tail end of Storm Arwen, which had battered the country overnight. Next to the church door, inside the open porch at the front, hangs - when the church is open - a "welcome" sign on a piece of slate. The sound of this sign banging against the wall due to the wind can be heard in places in this video; when I looked later, I saw that its hanging string had twisted around several times since I had arrived, showing that the wind was strong enough to keep turning the sign over!
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