Angels encamping around and on high,
Angels adorning the miniature sky,
Legions of angels in fanciful air
Lovingly guarding the worshipers there.
Angels adorning the miniature sky,
Legions of angels in fanciful air
Lovingly guarding the worshipers there.
Beautiful thought, may our life-work be crowned
By troops of angels encamping around,
Guardian hosts that their vigil shall keep
Through the long years while from labor we sleep.)
By troops of angels encamping around,
Guardian hosts that their vigil shall keep
Through the long years while from labor we sleep.)
Oh, are we treading the beautiful way?
Angels encamping around us to-day
Gladly will bear up the message to-night
Souls have been walking in garments of white.
Angels encamping around us to-day
Gladly will bear up the message to-night
Souls have been walking in garments of white.
What though the road seemeth tedious and long,
What though no word of their beautiful song
Floats from the heavens our pathway to cheer,
Angels are singing and angels are near.
What though no word of their beautiful song
Floats from the heavens our pathway to cheer,
Angels are singing and angels are near.
Far, far, above us their glad songs arise
Oh, do they love us at home in the skies?
Sometime our harps to their choir we will bring,
Learn their glad anthem and sing as they sing.
Oh, do they love us at home in the skies?
Sometime our harps to their choir we will bring,
Learn their glad anthem and sing as they sing.
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