Why Do We Mourn Departing Friends? (EN 3801)

EN 3801 Why Do We Mourn Departing Friends?

Luke.8.52

Versi Version 1

1

Why do we mourn departing friends,

Or shake at death’s alarms?

’Tis but the voice that Jesus sends

To call them to His arms.

2

Are we not tending upward, too,

As fast as time can move?

Nor would we wish the hours more slow

To keep us from our love.

3

Why should we tremble to convey

Their bodies to the tomb?

There the dear flesh of Jesus lay,

And left a long perfume.

4

The graves of all His saints He blessed,

And softened every bed;

Where should the dying members rest,

But with the dying Head?

5

Thence He arose, ascending high,

And showed our feet the way;

Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly,

At the great rising day.

6

Then let the last loud trumpet sound,

And bid our kindred rise;

Awake, ye nations under ground;

Ye saints, ascend the skies.

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