The Christian — Warfare and Pilgrimage

Brethren, while we sojourn here

No. 609
Metre 7s. D.
Tune COME HOME.
Words Joseph Swain.
Music Wm. G. Fischer.
Key F major
Time 6/8
3 stanzas

Words

Brethren, while we sojourn here,Fight we must, but should not fear;Foes we have, but we've a Friend;One who loves us to the end;Forward, then, with courage go,Long we shall not dwell below;Soon the joyful news will come,"Child, your Father calls; come home."

Chorus.

Come home, come home, Thy Father calls; come home.Come home, come home, Thy Father calls; come home.

In the world a thousand snaresLie to take us unawares;Satan, with malicious art,Watches each unguarded heart;But from Satan's malice free,Saints will soon victorious be;Soon the joyful news will come,"Child, your Father calls; come home."

But of all the foes we meet,None so apt to turn our feet,None betray us into sin,Like the foes we have within;Yet let nothing spoil your peace,Christ will also conquer these;Then the joyful news will come,"Child, your Father calls; come home."

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHRISTIAN—WARFARE AND PILGRIMAGE.»; hymn number «609» (large), tune name «COME HOME. 7s. D.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals; the «D.» in a smaller size), «WM. G. FISCHER.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); printed vertically in the right margin beside system 3, reading downwards, «By permission» (no full stop). Stanza 1 is interlinear, in a bold condensed face. System 1, in braces with «1.» before them: «Breth - ren, while we so-journ here, Fight we must, but should not fear;» (first time, first ending «1st.») and «Foes we have, but we've aFriend; (omit.) . . . . . .» (second time: «(omit.)» in italics = skip the first ending; «a Friend» is set without a visible space), continued right of the brace, under the second ending «2d.», by «One who loves us to the end;». System 2, between repeat signs, in braces: «For - ward, then, with cour - age go,» and «Long we shall not dwell be-low;», then, right of the brace, one line «Soon the joy - ful news will come, " Child, your Fa - ther calls; come home."». System 3, «Chorus.» (bold) above, between repeat signs, in braces: «Come home, come home, Thy Fa - ther calls; come home.» (first ending) and «Come home, come home, Thy (omit.) . . . . . .», continued right of the brace, under the second ending, by «Fa - ther calls; come home.». Stanza 1 and the chorus below are assembled in the order sung, the syllables joined into words. The chorus is printed once, with stanza 1; it follows every stanza. Stanzas 2–3 are printed as text in the left column below the music (no reference line is printed for this hymn), then «Joseph Swain.» in italics. The stanza numbers 2 and 3 are printed without a full stop (numbered «2.», «3.» here like stanza 1). The lines of every stanza are set flush; the opening quotation mark of each stanza's last line hangs in the margin. The print sets a thin space before «;» («unawares ;», «heart ;», «be ;», «within ;», «these ;») and after the opening quotation mark of the interlinear «" Child,»; it is closed up here. Straight quotation marks and apostrophes are used for the printer's curly ones. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.