A poor afflicted sojourner
I see the meaning of thy love;
It strips me of my comforts here,
To mind me of the joys above:
I answer to the call divine,
After my old companions come,
And for that better country pine,
And hasten to my heavenly home.
A poor afflicted sojourner
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The woman was left of her two sons and her husband. Then she arose that she might return.”—Ruth i. 5, 6. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 142.
Publishing: Public Domain