Why should we Weep?


Why should we weep for those we love,
Who in the faith of Christ have died?
Set free from bonds of sin and pain,
They are living still--the other side.

From wave to wave they once were tossed
On this world's sea, by storm and tide:
Within the haven calm and still
They are resting now--the other side.

When gloomy Jordan roared and swelled,
The great High Priest was there to guide,
And safe above the stormy waves
He bore them--to the other side.

What though their bodies in the earth
We laid to wait the Judgment-tide?
Themselves are fled--they are not there
But living still--the other side.

The winds that murmur o'er their graves,
To us who still on earth abide,
Bring echoes faint of that sweet song
They ever sing--the other side.

What though in spite of rain and dew