Poems (Smith)/Passing Away (Passing away! Yes, gone forever more)
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PASSING AWAY.
Passing away! Yes, gone forever more
To that never-ending beautiful shore;
With angels to welcome us with kind love,
And dwell in our heavenly home far above.
Passing away! But new beauties we find
To beckon to heaven, and make us resign'd.
Suffering and sorrow on earth are now past,
Eternity awaits us, with sweet rest at last.
To beckon to heaven, and make us resign'd.
Suffering and sorrow on earth are now past,
Eternity awaits us, with sweet rest at last.
Passing away into bright beaming day,
With light everlasting to brighten the way,
Triumphant faith and pureness of heart
Redeem at last when from earth we depart.
With light everlasting to brighten the way,
Triumphant faith and pureness of heart
Redeem at last when from earth we depart.
Passing away! Why here should we stay
Another world brightens with eternal day:
Lighting the pathway beaming and bright,
And leading us onward to eternal light.
Another world brightens with eternal day:
Lighting the pathway beaming and bright,
And leading us onward to eternal light.
Passing away! Why linger we here,
Amid all earth's trials with nothing to cheer,
And live dreary lives till at our God's call
Death at last throws a kind mantle o'er all.
Amid all earth's trials with nothing to cheer,
And live dreary lives till at our God's call
Death at last throws a kind mantle o'er all.