This earth on which awhile we stay,
We cannot call our own,
So suddenly we pass away
Into that land unknown:
That land unknown, our promis’d place
Not yet to us is given;
But heirs thro’ hope, we shall possess
Th’ inheritance of heaven.
This earth on which awhile we stay
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He gave him none inheritance in it &c.’—[Acts 7,] v. 5.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 201.
Publishing: Public Domain