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Hymn: A little longer still patience beloved (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: A little longer still patience beloved

Topic: The New Life/Submission and Deliverance

Writer: <no first name given> Christian Register

Composer:

Meter: 11s and 10s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 931

Page Number: 554, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

A little longer still--patience, beloved;

A little longer still, ere heaven unroll

The glory, and the brightness, and the wonder,

Eternal and divine, that waits thy soul.



A little longer ere life, true, immortal,

(Not this our shadowy life) will be thine own.

And thou shalt stand where winged archangels worship,

And trembling bow before the great white throne.



A little longer still, and heaven awaits thee,

And fills thy spirit with a great delight;

Then our pale joys will seem a dream forgotten,

Our sun a darkness, and our day a night.



A little longer, and thy heart, beloved,

Shall beat for ever with a love divine;

And joy so pure, so mighty, so eternal,

No mortal knows, and lives, shall then be thine.



A little longer yet, and angel voices

Shall sing in heavenly chant upon thine ear;

Angels and saints await thee, and God need thee;

Beloved, can we bid thee linger here?