Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Why do we mourn departing friends
Topic: Mournful Scenes
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: Song 298
Page Number: 367, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHY do we mourn departing friends,
Or shake at death's alarms?
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends
To call them to his arms.
Are we not tending upward, too,
As fast as time can move?
Nor would we wish the time more slow,
To keep us from our Love.
Why should we tremble to convey
Their bodies to the tomb?
'Twas there the flesh of Jesus lay,
And left a long perfume.
The graves of all the saints he blest,
And soften'd ev'ry bed;
Where should the dying members rest,
But with their dying Head?
Thence he arose, ascending high,
And show'd our feet the way;
Up to the Lord our souls 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.