Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: She was the music of our home
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> Bonar
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1062
Page Number: 628, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsShe was the music of our home,
A day that knew no night,
The fragrance of our garden bower,
A thing all smiles and light.
Above the couch we bent and prayed
In the half-lighted room,
As the bright hues of infant life
Sank slowly into gloom.
The form remained; but there was now
No soul our love to share;
Farwell, with weeping hearts we said,
Child of our love and care.
But years are moving quickly past,
And time will soon be o'er;
Death shall be swallowed up of life
On the immortal shore.