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Hymn: Away from his home and the friends of his youth (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Away from his home and the friends of his youth

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: W Hunter

Composer:

Meter: 11s

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1095

Page Number: 648, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

A way from his home and the friends of his youth,

He hasted, the herald of mercy and truth,

For the love of his Lord, and to seek for the lost;

Soon, alas! was his fall-but he died at his post.



The stranger's eye wept, that, in life's brightest bloom,

One gifted so highly should sink to the tomb;

For in ardor he led in the van of the host,

And he fell like a soldier-he died at his post.



He wept not himself that his warfare was done-

The battle was fought, and the victory won;

But he whisper'd of those whom his heart clung to most,

"Tell my brethren for me that I died at my post."



He ask'd not a stone to be sculptured with verse;

He ask'd not that fame should his merits rehearse;

But he ask'd as a boon, when he gave up the ghost,

That his brethren might know that he died at his post.



Victorious his fall-for he rose as he fell,

With Jesus, his Master, in glory to dwell;

He has pass'd o'er the stream, and has reach'd the bright coast,

For he fell like a martyr-he died at his post.



And can we the words of his exit forget?

O! no, they are fresh in our memory yet;

An example so worthy shall never be lost,

We will fall in the work-we will die at our post.