“A Little While!” Our Lord Shall Come

A lit­tle while! our Lord shall come

And we shall wan­der here no more;

He’ll take us to our Fa­ther’s home

Where He for us has gone be­fore

To dwell with Him

to see His face

And sing the glo­ries of His grace.

A lit­tle while! He’ll come again;

Let us the pre­cious hours redeem;

Our on­ly grief to give Him pain

Our joy to serve and fol­low Him;

Watching and rea­dy may we be

As those who long their Lord to see.

A lit­tle while! ’twill soon be past;

Why should we shun the shame and cross?

O let us in His foot­steps haste

Counting for Him all else but loss;

O how will re­com­pense His smile

The suf­fer­ings of this lit­tle while!

A lit­tle while! come

Sav­ior

come!

For Thee Thy bride has tar­ried long;

Take Thy poor wea­ried pil­grims home

To sing the new eter­nal song

To see Thy glo­ry and to be

In ev­ery­thing con­formed to Thee!