Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1850
Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: When I set our for heaven
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: S Leonard
Meter: PM
Tune: Olden Times
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 308, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen I set out for hea-ven
But few were in the way,
But oftentimes together
We met to praise and pray;
Our bosoms glowed with rapture,
With love our hearts were fired;
We sung and talk'd of glory,
We sung and never tired.
Those days were full of sweetness,
I think upon them yet;
Their holy joy and gladness
I never can forget:
We were a band of brothers,
Of brothers fond and true;
We were a band of brothers,
And loved as brothers do.
The world was all against us,
What cared we for its frown?
A better world before us
Contained a starry crown:
We trampled on earth's pleasures,
Its riches were but dross;
Its glory was all tarnished,
We gloried in the cross.
When one was called to leave us,
And fly away to God,
We cheered him with our voices
While crossing Jordan's flood:
We sung the songs of Zion
Around his dying bed,
And witnessed with what triumph
The soul from sorrow fled.
Then with our friends departed,
We seemed the earth to leave;
And soaring up like seraphs
Forgot to weep and grieve;
With patriarchs and prophets,
And blood-washed throngs above,
We sung the loud hosannah-
The song of heavenly love.
Ye friends of former seasons,
Of happy youthful days,
All, all have gone before me,
Ye all have run your race;
And mine will soon be finished;
I haste to grasp your hand,
To join again my comrades
In that undying land.