Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: They are going only going
Topic: Death/Of Children
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: J Wilcox
Meter: 8s and 7s double
Tune: Faben
Hymn Number: 518
Page Number: 181, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHEY are going--only going--
Jesus call'd them long ago;
All the Wint'ry 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 Summer earth is dress'd,
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.
Little hearts forever stainless--
Little hands as pure as they--
Little feet by angels guided,
Never a forbidden way!
They are going--ever going--
Leaving many a lonely spot;
But 'tis Jesus who has call'd them;
Suffer and forbid them not.