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An Old Advent Song

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 15, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 27.

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An Old Advent Song

Tune of “Nellie Gray”
We are voyagers on an ocean, and our destiny we know, For our chart, it has pointed out the way, And our Leader He is cheering us as o’er the waves we go, Saying, “Courage, sailors, soon we’ll gain the day.”
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Then we’ll watch and we’ll pray, while our vessel bears away, And we’ll never be disheartened any more, For the port is getting nearer, and we hear our Leader say, We soon shall reach the harbor and the shore.
We have passed the coast of Babylon, the Medo-Persian line, We have left the coast of Grecia far behind; We’ve been sailing down the Roman shore for eighteen hundred years, And our chart declares the port we soon shall find.
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Tho’ hard the winds are blowing, and high the billows roll, It will only make us sigh for land the more. And our rest will be the sweeter when we reach the final goal, And we’ll shout our triumphs o’er on the shore.
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The dark clouds now hover o’er us, and danger’s all around, Our noble bark is bearing us away, Then cheer up, noble sailors, for soon the trump will sound, And bring us safe to anchor in the Bay.
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