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A homeless Stranger amongst us came - Bands of love
(Frances Bevan/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

"Bands of love"

Ruth 1,16-17.

1. A homeless Stranger amongst us came
  to this land of death and mourning;
he walked in a path of sorrow and shame,
  through insult, and hate, and scorning. (PDF - Midi)

2. A Man of sorrows, of toil and tears,
  and outcast Man and a lonely;
but he looked on me, and through endless years
  him must I love – him only.

3. Then from this sad and sorrowful land,
  from this land of tears he departed;
but the light of his eyes and the touch of his hand
  had left me broken-hearted.

4. And I clave to him as he turned his face
  from the land that was mine no longer –
the land I had loved in the ancient days,
  ere I knew the love that was stronger.

5. And I would abide where he abode,
  and follow his steps for ever;
his people my people, his God my God,
  in the land beyond the river.

6. And where he died would I also die,
  far dearer a grave beside him
than a kingly palace amongst living men,
  the place which they denied him.

7. Then afar an afar did I follow him on,
  to the land where he was going –
to the depths of glory beyond the sun,
  where the golden fields were glowing –

8. The golden harvest of endless joy,
  the joy he had sown in weeping;
how can I tell the blessed employ,
  the songs of that glorious reaping!

9. The recompense sweet, the full reward,
  which the Lord his God has given;
at rest beneath the wings of the Lord,
  at home in the courts of heaven.

P. G.

Frances Bevan, Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso and others 1, 1899, 102-103.

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