p. 1 | My Watch I'm Keeping by S. S. Brewer

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1865

My Watch I'm Keeping.

By S. S. Brewer

TUNE—"Hazel Dell."

On this dreary earth I long have wandered, Weary and oppressed, Where the dearest ties are often sundered, In the fondest breast. Here, 'mid scenes so often sad and trying, Sorrow's cup runs o'er, We, with lone and weary hearts, are sighing For bright Canaan's shore.

All the while my watch I'm keeping, In this vale of tears, For the Saviour soon will wake those sleeping, When he doth appear.

Cold and silent now our friends are sleeping Where the bright flowers wave— And in bitter grief their love-watch keeping, Mourners tend the grave. While the gentle gales are 'round me sighing, Like the lute's low tone, Oft they toll the knell for mortals dying, Bringing grief's sad moan.

O my brethren, lonely, sad, and weary, Soon your King will come And change this gloomy scene, so dark and dreary, To an Eden home. Mourning pilgrim, Christ is sweetly calling— List! his accents hear! And the evening shades around are falling— Soon he will appear!

[S. S. Brewer.