Waiting for Christ

O land of rest, for thee I sigh

No. 807
Metre C. M.
Words Elizabeth Mills.
Singing key F major
5 stanzas

Sung to WOODLAND (hymn 354)

Words

O land of rest, for thee I sigh;When will the moment comeWhen I shall lay my armor by,And dwell with Christ at home?

No tranquil joys on earth I know,No peaceful, sheltering dome;This world 's a wilderness of woe,This world is not my home.

To Jesus Christ I sought for rest;He bade me cease to roam,And fly for succor to his breast,And he 'd conduct me home.

When by affliction sharply tried,Faith tells of scenes to come,—Those endless joys prepared above,—And then I sigh for home.

Weary of wandering round and roundThis vale of sin and gloom,I long to leave the unhallowed ground,And dwell with Christ at home.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «807» (large) in the right column of p. 264, under «Anon.» of hymn 806, with the reference line «438, 354, 724.» in italic figures beside it (sing to the tunes of hymns 438 ARLINGTON, 354 WOODLAND or 724 HERBERT, all C. M.; no meter is printed — the stanzas are 8.6.8.6, C. M.; the page OCR read the middle number as «364», but the glyph is a 5 and hymn 364 has no tune). All five stanzas stand in the right column, followed by «Elizabeth Mills.» in italics, right-aligned, at the foot of the page. Stanzas numbered «1»–«5» without periods (written «1.»–«5.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book); lines 2 and 4 indented. The first word «O» is a capital and the second word «LAND» is set in small capitals; written «O land». «world 's» and «he 'd» are set with a space before the apostrophe and are kept so; «unhallowed» as printed. «Jesus» is set with a slightly wide J («J esus»); written «Jesus». The print sets a thin space before some «;» (e.g. «rest ;»); it is closed up here. The dashes «come,—» and «above,—» are the print's. The printer's curly apostrophes are written straight. Spelling («armor», «succor»), punctuation and capitals are the print's.