Worthy art thou, returning home lyrics

Worthy art thou, returning home, the bell

For thee should ring, and crowds come gathering round

To gaze, how as a gladdening miracle

Thou com'st, of sin or shame all blameless found.

Man's praise and woman's love shall thus abound;

And this thy glorious welcome shall dispel

The slanderous words which some have breathed around,

That honour bade thee still at distance dwell.