Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: My Christian friends in bonds of love
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Meter: LM
Tune: Parting Hand
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 051, 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 pass'd away,
Since we have met to sing and pray!
How loath 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.