Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: My Christian friends in bonds of love
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: DLM
Tune: Butler
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 036, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsMy Christian friends in bonds of love,
Whose hearts the sweetest union prove,
Your friendship's like the strongest band,
Yet we must take the parting hand.
Your presence sweet, our union dear,
What joys we feel together here!
And when I see that we must part,
You draw, like cords, around my heart.
How sweet the hours have passed away,
Since we have met to sing and pray!
How loth are we to leave the place
Where Jesus shows his smiling face!
Oh, could I stay with friends so kind,
How would it cheer my fainting mind!
But pilgrims in a foreign land,
We oft must take the parting hand.