Go and Dig My Grave Today

Go and dig my grave to­day!

Weary of my wan­der­ings all

Now from earth I pass away

For the heav­en­ly peace doth call;

Angel voic­es from ab­ove

Call me to their rest and love.

Go and dig my grave to­day!

Homeward doth my jour­ney tend

And I lay my staff away

Here where all things earth­ly end

And I lay my wea­ry head

In the on­ly pain­less bed.

What is there I yet should do

Lingering in this dark­some vale?

Proud and migh­ty

fair to view

Are our schemes

and yet they fail

Like the sand be­fore the wind

That no pow­er of man can bind.

Farewell

earth

then; I am glad

That in peace I now de­part

For thy ve­ry joys are sad

And thy hopes de­ceive the heart;

Fleeting is thy beau­ty’s gleam

False and chang­ing as a dream.

And to you a last good night

Sun and moon

and stars so dear;

Farewell all your gold­en light;

I am tra­vel­ing far from here

To the splen­dors of that day

Where ye all must fade away.

Farewell

O ye much-loved friends!

Grief hath smote you as a sword

But the Com­fort­er des­cends

Unto them that love the Lord.

Weep not o’er a pass­ing show

To th’eter­nal world I go.

Weep not that I take my leave

Of the world; that I ex­change

Errors that too close­ly cleave

Shadows

emp­ty ghosts that range

Through this world of naught and night

For a land of truth and light.

Weep not

dear­est to my heart

For I find my Sav­ior near

And I know that I have part

In the pains He suf­fered here

When He shed His sac­red blood

For the whole world’s high­est good.

Weep not

my Re­deem­er lives;

Heav’nward spring­ing from the dust

Clear-eyed Hope her com­fort gives;

Faith

Heav’n’s cham­pi­on

bids us trust;

Love eter­nal whis­pers nigh

Child of God

fear not to die!