Text: | The Bells of Eternity |
Author: | William Orcutt Cushing |
Tune: | [The day is departing, its hours are past] |
Composer: | William James Kirkpatrick |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. The day is departing, its hours are past;
The shadows are falling, are falling fast;
The sheaves are at rest on the harvest plain;
The reapers have gathered the golden grain,
The reapers have gathered the golden grain.
Refrain
Be ready, my soul, for the Lord is near;
The sound of His coming is almost here;
Be ready, for list! they are calling thee!
The bells, the bells of eternity;
The bells, the bells of eternity.
2. The shadows are creeping o’er vale and hill;
The dews on the mountains are soft and still;
I know that the daylight, with wealth untold,
Is fading away on the hills of gold,
Is fading away on the hills of gold. [Refrain]
3. The song of the reapers is far away;
No longer they toil in the harvest day;
The moments, now waiting, will soon be o’er;
The day will be gone, and forevermore,
The day will be gone, and forevermore. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The day is departing, its hours are past |
Title: | The Bells of Eternity |
Author: | William Orcutt Cushing (1902) |
Refrain First Line: | Be ready, my soul, for the Lord is near |
Language: | English |
Source: | Grateful Praise, by William Kirkpatrick & Henry L. Gilmour (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Hall-Mack Company, 1902), number 80 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [The day is departing, its hours are past] |
Composer: | William James Kirkpatrick (1902) |
Incipit: | 51111 23266 67657 |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Media | |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |