While I, a stranger on the earth,
For heaven am ever yearning.
Far from my heavenly Father’s home,
’Mid toil and sorrow here I roam.
His metrical version of the Te Deum Laudamus is also an impressive example of the poetic genius of this master psalmist:
Jehovah, Thee we glorify,
Ruler upon Thy throne on high!
O let Thy Word
Through all the earth be heard.
Holy, holy, holy art Thou, O Lord!