Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Let me go my soul is weary (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

First Line: Let me go my soul is weary

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: William Baxter

Composer: A Fillmore

Meter: 8s and 7s

Tune: Let Me Go

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 202, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Let me go; my soul is weary

Of the chain which binds it here;

Let my spirit bend its pinion

To a brighter, holier sphere:

Earth,  tis true, hath friends who bless me

With their fond and faithful love,

But the hands of angels beckon

Onward to the climes above.



Let me go; for earth hath sorrow,

Sin, and pain, and bitter tears;

All its paths are dark and dreary,

All its hopes are fraught with fears;

Short-lived are its brightest flowers,

Soon its cherish'd joys decay;

Let me go; I fain would leave it

For the realms of cloudless day.



Let me go; for songs seraphic

Now seem calling from the sky;

 Tis the welcome of the angels,

Which e'en now are hov'ring nigh;

Let me go; they wait to bear me

To the mansions of the blest,

Where the spirit, worn, and weary,

Finds at last its long-sought rest.