Christ My Song - 981

While ceaseless love and ceaseless care - Hymn for a Dying Bed
(Charlotte Elliott/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

Hymn for a Dying Bed.

1. While ceaseless love and ceaseless care
  by all are fondly shown,
a voice within me cries, "Beware!
  for thou must die alone." PDF - Midi

2. That solemn hour is come for me,
  though all their charms I own,
when human ties resigned must be;
  for I must die alone.

3. Terrestrial converse now is o'er;
  my work on earth is done;
and I must tread th' eternal shore,
  and I must die alone.

4. But oh! I view not now with dread
  that shadowy vale unknown;
I see a light within it shed:
  I shall not die alone!

5. One will be with me there, whose voice
  I long have loved and known:
to die is now my wish, my choice,
  I shall not die alone!

Charlotte Elliott, Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, 208.

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