7094 | The Cyber Hymnal#7095 | 7096 |
Text: | Waiting |
Author: | Frances L. Mace |
Tune: | MACE |
Composer: | Ira David Sankey |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Only waiting till the shadows
Are a little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmer
Of the day’s last beam is flown;
Till the night of death is faded
From the heart once full of day;
Till the stars of heav’n are breaking
Thro’ the twilight soft and gray.
2. Only waiting till the reapers
Have the last sheaf gathered home;
For the summertime has faded
And the autumn winds have come.
Quickly, reapers! gather quickly,
All the ripe hours of my heart;
For the bloom of life has withered,
And I hasten to depart.
3. Only waiting till the angels
Open wide the pearly gate,
At whose portals long I’ve lingered
Weary, poor and desolate:
Even now I hear their footsteps,
And their voices far away;
If they call me, I am waiting,
Only waiting to obey.
4. Waiting for a brighter dwelling
Than I ever yet have seen,
Where the tree of life is blooming,
And the fields are ever green:
Waiting for my full redemption,
When my Savior shall restore,
All that sin has caused to wither;
Age and sorrow come no more.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Only waiting till the shadows |
Title: | Waiting |
Author: | Frances L. Mace (ca. 1854) |
Meter: | 87.87 D |
Language: | English |
Source: | Waterville, Maine, Mail, circa 1854 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MACE |
Composer: | Ira David Sankey (1879) |
Meter: | 87.87 D |
Incipit: | 54511 21235 56531 |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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