Loved Ones Departing (James M. Dungan)

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• (Posted 2023-10-11)  CPDL #76220:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 514 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Loved Ones Departing
Composer: James M. Dungan
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1894 J. F. King
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English text

One by one the loved ones are fading,
One by one they leave the shore,
Blossoms sweet in fragrance are falling,
Falling to return no more.
Brighter far than earthly blossoms
When the golden crown they wear,
Heaven’s sweet rest they now have entered,
Promised rest for them to share.

Fondly would we keep and care for them,
Were they spared to riper years,
Every hope and comfort we bring them,
Gently stay the falling tear.
But the Master’s hand doth beckon,
Calling them to joys above,
Golden harps with rapture playing,
Voices tuned to songs of love.

Brighter days in childhood’s bright fancy,
Happy years of joy to bring,
Darkened in their earlier blooming,
Fading in their early spring.
Summer flowers to memory waken,
Loved ones we shall meet no more
Till the tide grows calm before us,
And we reach the golden shore.