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Hymn: Shed not a tear o'er your friend's early bier (FL)

Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion

Date: 1867

Compiler: A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co

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Page Number: 259, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Shed not a tear o'er your friend's early bier,

When I am gone, when I am gone.

Smile if the slow-tolling bell you shall hear,

When I am gone, when I am gone.

Weep not for me when you stand by my grave,

Think of the crowns all the ransomed shall have,

Think who has died His beloved to save,

When I am gone, when I am gone.



Plant ye a tree which may wave over me,

When I am gone, when I am gone,

Sing ye a song when my grave ye shall see,

When I am gone, when I am gone.

Come at the close of a bright summer day,

Come when the sun sheds his last lingering ray,

Come and rejoice that I thus passed away,

When I am gone, when I am gone.



Plant ye a rose that may bloom o'er my bed,

When I am gone, when I am gone.

Breathe not a sign for the blest early dead,

When I am gone, when I am gone.

Praise ye the Lord that I'm freed from all care,

Serve ye the Lord that my bliss ye may share,

Look up on high and believe I am there,

When I am gone, when I am gone.