{"slug": "i-m-but-a-stranger-here", "title": "I'm But A Stranger Here", "first_line": "I'm but a stranger here, Heav'n is my home", "author": "thomas-rawson-taylor", "author_date": "1885", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [6, 4, 6, 4, 6, 6, 6, 4], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Brotherhood", "Christian Home", "Family", "Christian Life", "Church on Earth (Church Militant)"], "scripture": ["Colossians 3:12-17", "1 John 4:7-21", "Ephesians 4:1-6", "Galatians 6:1-5"], "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "oh-source-1931", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Open Hymnal X:213; all components published pre-1931 (latest year 1885).", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "im_but_a_stranger_here", "total_instances": 659}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "I'm but a stran -- ger here, Heav'n is my home; Earth is a des -- ert drear, Heav'n is my home. Dan -- ger and sor -- row stand round me on ev -- ery hand; Heav'n is my fa -- ther -- land, Heav'n is my home.", "prose": ["I'm but a stranger here,", "Heav'n is my home;", "Earth is a desert drear,", "Heav'n is my home.", "Danger and sorrow stand", "round me on every hand;", "Heav'n is my fatherland,", "Heav'n is my home."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "What though the temp -- est rage, Heav'n is my home; Short is my pil -- grim -- age, Heav'n is my home; Time's wild and win -- try blast soon shall be ov -- er past; I shall reach home at last, Heav'n is my home.", "prose": ["What though the tempest rage,", "Heav'n is my home;", "Short is my pilgrimage,", "Heav'n is my home;", "Time's wild and wintry blast", "soon shall be over past;", "I shall reach home at last,", "Heav'n is my home."]}, "3": {"syllabified": "There at my Sav -- ior's side Heav'n is my home; I shall be glor -- i -- fied, Heav'n is my home. There are the good and blest, those I loved most and best; There, too, I soon shall rest, Heav'n is my home.", "prose": ["There at my Savior's side", "Heav'n is my home;", "I shall be glorified,", "Heav'n is my home.", "There are the good and blest,", "those I loved most and best;", "There, too, I soon shall rest,", "Heav'n is my home."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "There -- fore I mur -- mur not, Heav'n is my home; What -- e'er my earth -- ly lot, Heav'n is my home; And I shall sure -- ly stand there at my Lord's right hand. Heav'n is my fa -- ther -- land, Heav'n is my home.", "prose": ["Therefore I murmur not,", "Heav'n is my home;", "Whate'er my earthly lot,", "Heav'n is my home;", "And I shall surely stand", "there at my Lord's right hand.", "Heav'n is my fatherland,", "Heav'n is my home."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}