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Missouri 438t

Tune: Eld. Edmund Dumas, 1869
Alto: Mrs. Anna L. (Cooper) Blackshear, 1902
Lyrics: Elizabeth King Mills, 1837
Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)
O land of rest, for thee I sigh,
When will the moment come,
When I shall lay my armor by,
And dwell at peace at home.

No tranquil joys on earth I know,
No peaceful shelt'ring dome;
This world's a wilderness of woe,
This world is not my home.