Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: Only waiting till the shadows
Topic: Death/Welcome Approach of
Writer: <no first name given> Mace
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 7s double
Tune: Autumn
Hymn Number: 516
Page Number: 180, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsONLY waiting till the shadows
Are a little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmer
Of the day's last beam is flown;
Till the night of earth is faded
From the heart once full of day;
Till the stars of heav'n are breaking
Through the twilight soft and gray.
Only waiting till the reapers
Have the last sheaf gather'd home;
For the Summer-time is faded,
And the Autumn winds have come.
Quickly, reapers, gather quickly
The last ripe hours of my heart,
For the bloom of life is wither'd,
And I hasten to depart.
Only waiting till the shadows
Are a little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmer
Of the day's last beam is flown;
Then, from out the gather'd darkness,
Holy, deathless stars shall rise,
By whose light my soul shall gladly
Tread its pathway to the skies.