Beyond the smiling and the weeping
Beyond the smiling and the weeping. Horatius Bonar* (1808-1889).
This was published in Bonar’s Hymns of Faith and Hope, First Series (1857). It was entitled ‘A Little Whie’. It had six stanzas:
Beyond the smiling and the weeping I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home! Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come.
Beyond the blooming and the fading, I shall be soon; Beyond the shining and the shading, Beyond the hoping and the dreading, I shall be soon. Love, rest, and home! Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come.
Beyond the rising and the setting, I shall be soon; Beyond the...
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