A Little While

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 soothing and the fretting,
Beyond remembering and forgetting,
I shall be soon.
Love, rest, and home,
Sweet hope!
Lord, tarry not, but come!

Beyond the gathering and the strowing,
I shall be soon.
Beyond the ebbing and 'the flowing,
Beyond the coming and the going,
I shall be soon.
Love, rest, and home,
Sweet hope!
Lord, tarry not, but come!

Beyond the parting and the meeting,
I shall be soon.
Beyond the farewell and the greeting,
Hearts fainting now and now high heating,
I shall be soon.
Love, rest, and home.
Sweet hope!
Lord, tarry not, but come!

Beyond the frost-chain and the fever,
I shall be soon.
Beyond the rock-waste and the river,
Beyond the ever and the never,
I shall be soon.
Love, rest, and home,
Sweet hope!
Lord, tarry not, but come!