Chorus
Such a Guide!—no guide attends thee,
Hence for thee my fears arise;
If a guardian pow’r befriend thee,
’Tis unseen by mortal eyes.
Chorus
Four more stanzas are in Good Old Songs. It is found also as ‘Pilgrim Stranger’ in Dadmun’s Melodeon, Boston, 1861, and as ‘Female Pilgrim’ in the Christian Lyre, 18th edition, New York, 1835. The song is apparently one of the so called dialogue hymns of the early English Methodists. The men sitting on one side of the meeting house, and the women sitting opposite, sang alternate stanzas. Lightwood cites one as follows:
Men:
Tell us, O women, we would know
Whither so fast ye move.