Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: Why do we mourn departing friends
Topic: Comfort
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: A Abbey
Meter: CM
Tune: Cooling
Hymn Number: 378
Page Number: 131, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWHY do we mourn departing friends,
Or shake at death's alarms?
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends
To call them to His arms.
Are we not tending upward, too,
As fast as time can move?
Nor would we wish the time more slow
To keep us from our Love.
Why should we tremble to convey
Their bodies to the tomb?
'Twas there the flesh of Jesus lay,
Amid its silent gloom.
The graves of all the saints He blest,
And soften'd every bed;
Where should the dying members rest
But with their dying Head?