Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: They are going only going
Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1074
Page Number: 635, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThey are going-only going-
Jesus called them long ago;
All the wintry time they're passing
Softly as the falling snow.
When the violets in the spring-time
Catch the azure of the sky,
They are carried out to slumber
Sweetly where the violets lie.
They are going-only going-
When with sumer earth is dressed,
In their cold hands holding roses
Folded to each silent breast;
When the autumn hangs red banners
Out above the harvest sheaves,
They are going-ever going-
Thick and fast, like falling leaves.
All along the mighty ages,
All adown the solemn time.
They have taken up their homeward
March to the serener clime,
Where the watching, waiting angels
Lead them from the shadow dim,
To the brightness of his presence
Who has called them unto him.
They are going-only going-
Out of pain and into bliss-
Out of sad and sinful weakness
Into perfect holiness.
Snowy brows-no care shall shade them;
Bright eyes-tears shall never dim;
Rosy lips-no time shall fade them;
Jesus called them unto him.
Little hearts for ever stainless-
Little hands as pure as they-
Litle feet by angels guided
Never a forbidden way!
They are going-ever going-
Leaving many a lonely spot;
But 't is Jesus who has called them-
Suffer and forbid them not.