Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: Upon a couch of pain
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: William Baxter
Composer: A Fillmore
Tune: Meet Me There
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 225, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsUpon a couch of pain
A dying mother lay,
While friends around with anguish saw
Her life fast ebb away.
She looked upon that tearful throng,
The aged, young, and fair,
But looked in vain for one dear face,
A face that was not there.
She knew that death was near,
Yet dreaded not to die,
But wished her well beloved son
Might meet her dying eye.
That she might lay her hands once more
Upon her son's bright hair,
And breathe for him, ere death should come,
An earnest, fervent prayer.
Her pulse grew fainter still,
And dimmer grew her eye,
And keener grew the anguish of
The loved ones standing by.
Then flashed her eye as if she saw
The pearly gates appear,
And pointing up, "Tell him," she said,
"Tell him to meet me there."
She calmly fell asleep,
Her earthly course was done,
But never from his heart hath passed
That message to her son.
And when his final hour shall come,
He hopes to breathe this prayer,
"Receive me to thyself, O God!"
And meet his mother there.