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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 28, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 35.

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Watching and Waiting

By L. D. Santee

L. D. SANTEE
O, THE days are passing, fading, And the years glide slow away, And our hearts are aching, yearning, Longing for the coming day When the warfare will be ended And the weary rest in peace, When our Lord, from heaven descended, Gives from pain a long release.
Day by day, our loved ones perish, Sparkling eyes grow dim with pain, Fair forms stiffen into silence; All our tender care is vain. Sadly and with tears we lay them Low beneath the sod to rest; Free are they from all earth's troubles And the storms that sweep its breast.
O, the weary, weary ages! O, the years so filled with woe! Still, there follow in their seasons, Summer heat and winter snow. Patience, patience, ye despairing! Soon will come the King sublime, And eternal hands are weaving Off the measured thread of time.
Moline, Ill.