Untitled article by C. H. ROGERS

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 14, 1868

LIFE'S FAIR TREE.

By C. H. ROGERS

TUNE.—The Old Elm Tree.

Our hearts are burdened with sorrow and care, And we long to rise and wing the air, And join with those who forever are free, And stand redeemed on the crystal sea. Our hearts beat with gladness at the joyful thought, With heavenly zeal our minds are fraught; For the time is near when redeemed we shall be, And sing forever ’neath life’s fair tree.

With aching heart and throbbing brow, To thy blest will, O Lord, we bow. O fill our hearts with holy zeal, And in our souls thyself reveal. We sigh and we languish ’twixt hope and fear— But rejoice when we know that our Saviour is near; And we know that soon his glory we’ll see, And bask in his smiles ’neath life’s fair tree.

The morning soon in glory will dawn, Our bliss complete, our sorrows all gone, With rapturous joy we’ll swell the song, Through the heavenly choir the notes prolong. Oh! hail happy morning, thy dawn we hail, No more shall the arts of the foe prevail, Our barks we’ll moor in love’s boundless sea, And rejoice forever ’neath life’s fair tree.

C. H. ROGERS. Houston, Wis.