Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: Friend after friend departs
Topic: Mournful Scenes
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SHM
Tune:
Hymn Number: Song 300
Page Number: 369, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFRIEND after friend departs:
Who hath not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end:
Were this frail world our final rest,
Living or dying, none were blest.
Beyond the flight of time,
Beyond the reign of death,
There surely is some blessed clime
Where life is not a breath,
Nor life's affections transient fire,
Whose sparks fly upward and expire.
There is a world above,
Where parting is unknown;
A vast eternity of love,
Home of the good alone;
And faith beholds the dying here
Translated to that glorious sphere.
Thus star by star declines,
Till all are pass'd away:
As morning high and higher shines,
To pure and perfect day:
Nor sink those stars in empty night,
But hide themselves in heav'n's own light.