Now as long as here I roam,

On this earth have house and home,

Shall the light of love from thee

Shine through all my memory,

To my God I yet will cling,

All my life the praises sing

That from thankful hearts outspring.

2 Every sorrow, every smart,

That the Father’s loving heart

Hath appointed me of yore,

Or hath yet for me in store,

As my life flows on I’ll take

Calmly, gladly for his sake,

No more faithless murmurs make.

3 I will meet distress and pain,

I will greet e’en death’s dark reign,

I will lay me in the grave,

With a heart still glad and brave,

Whom the strongest doth defend,

Whom the highest counts his friend,

Can not perish in the end.