Hymn of the week

A Pilgrim in a desert land,
 I wander far and wide,
expecting that I may some time come
close to my Father's side.

Ahead of me I think I hear
sounds of a heavenly choir,
 a conquering host already gone
through tempest, flood and fire.

So prone I am when on my own
to stray from side to side,
 I need each step to paradise,
my God to be my guide.

I have a yearning for that land,
 where the unnumbered throng
extol the death on Calvary
in heaven's unending song!!

William Williams, 1717-91
tr. by Robert Maynard Jones, 1929