284: Ich bin ein Gast auf Erden.

Ich bin ein Gast auf Erden.--(Goed. 284.)

[Eternal Life.]

Based on Psalm XXXIX, 12, "I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were." Cf. also Psalm CXIX, "I am a stranger in the earth." It was first published in Ebeling, Berlin, 1666; reprinted in Wackernagel: 1843, no. 112; and Bachmann: no. 98; and included as no. 824, in the Unv. L. S.: 1851.

English Versions:

1. A pilgrim and a stranger, I journey here below.

A good translation in 7 stanzas by Miss Jane Borthwick, in H. L. L., 3d Series, 1858, p. 13, 1884, p. 139, as follows:

2. A pilgrim here I wander, On earth have no abode.

A translation in 10 stanzas by Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Ger., 2d Series, 1858, p. 173, and in her Chorale Book, 1863, no. 148, altered by stanzas as follows:

In Holy Song, 1869, it begins: "As pilgrims here we wander."

3. A rest here have I never, A guest on earth am I.

J. Kelly, 1867, p. 316.

4. On earth I'm but a pilgrim.

G. Wade in the U. P. Juvenile Missionary Magazine, 1859, p. 252.