By the dark Euphrates' stream,

By the Tigris, sad and lone

I wandered, a captive maid;

And the cruel Assyrian said,

“Awake your harp's sweet tone!”

I had heard of my fathers' glory from the lips of holy men,

And I thought of the land of my fathers; I thought of my fathers' land then.

Another is—

O church of Christ! our blest abode,

Celestial grace is thine.