Hymnal: The Pilgrim's Hymn Book
Date: 1816
Compiler: Joseph Thomas
Publisher/Printer: J Foster
First Line: Why should we mourn departing friends
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
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Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: LII
Page Number: 067, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhy should we mourn departing friends,
Or shake at death's alarms?
Tis but the voice that Jesus sends,
To call us to his arms.
Are we not tending upward too,
As fast as time can move?
Nor should we wish the hours more slow,
To keep us from our love.
The graves of all his saints be blest,
And soften'd every bed-
Where should thy dying members rest
But with their dying head?
Why should we tremble to convey
Their bodies to the tomb?
There the dear flesh of Jesus lay,
And left a long perfume.
Thence he arose, ascending high
And shew'd our feet the way-
Up unto thee our flesh shall fly
At the great rising day.
Then let the last loud trumpet sound,
And bid our kindred rise-
Awake, ye nations under ground,
Ye saints, ascend the skies.