Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: The music of his step was sought
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> By Permission
Composer: J Suffern
Meter: DLM
Tune: Drummond
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 044, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThe music of his step was sought;
His time had come, but he came not;
His little ones were wont to greet
The sound of his returning feet:
They waited long, were waiting still,
To see him hasting o'er the hill,
Across the brook, and to the door,
His manly face with joy spread o'er.
He was a faithful man of God,
And in his Savior's footsteps trod;
Stern duty bade him often stray
From those who near his bosom lay,
But when from anxious toils returned,
Kind hearts with strong affection burned,
The husband's and the father's voice,
In every ear poured richest joys.
But, ah! those ears no more shall hear
That voice to wife and children dear;
Those eyes of love shall never more
Look on that face with joy spread o'er;
Shall never see their loved on come
To cheer their hearth and bless their home!
Low lies his form beneath the sod,
High lives his spirit with his God.
Yet still they look with glistening eye,
Till, lo! a herald hastens nigh:
He comes, the tale of woe to tell;
How he, their prop and glory, fell;
How died he in a stranger's room,
How strangers laid him in the tomb,
How spoke he with his latest breath,
And loved and blessed them in his death.