Friend After Friend Departs (EN 5446)

EN 5446 Friend After Friend Departs

Heb.4.9

Versi Version 1

1

Friend after friend departs;

Who hath not lost a friend?

There is no union here of hearts,

That finds not here an end:

Were this frail world our only rest,

Living or dying, none were blest.

2

Beyond the flight of time,

Beyond this vale of death,

There surely is some blessed clime

Where life is not a breath,

Nor life’s affections transient fire,

Whose sparks fly upward and expire.

3

There is a world above,

Where parting is unknown,

A whole eternity of love,

Formed for the good alone;

And faith beholds the dying here

Translated to that happier sphere.

4

Thus star by star declines,

Till all are passed away,

As morning high and higher shines

To pure and perfect day;

Nor sink those stars in empty night,

But hide themselves in Heaven’s own light.

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