Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon
Date: 1848
Compiler: A S Hayden
Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden
First Line: Stay father stay the night is wild
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune: Temperance Hymn
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 230, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsStay, father, stay: the night is wild;
Oh! leave not now your dying child;
I feel the icy hand of death,
And short and shorter grows my breath.
Stay, father, stay: e'er morning's light
My soul may wing her upward flight,
And oh! I cannot, cannot die,
While thou, my father, art not by.
Stay, father, stay: my mother's gone,
And thou and I are left alone;
And from her starlit home on high
She'll weep that I alone should die.
Stay, father, stay: oh! leave this night
The maddening bowl, whose withering blight
Hath cast so dark a shade around
The home where joy alone was found.
Stay, father, stay: alone - alone -
With none to cheer, and none to mourn;
How can I leave this world of wo,
And to the land of spirits go?
Stay, father, stay, once more I ask;
Oh! count it not a heavy task
To stay with me till life shall end
My last, my only earthly friend.