LET ME GO | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 24, 1872

LET ME GO.

Let me go! for I am weary Of earth's dark and lonely night; All I cherish here seems dreary, As I see the heavenly light. Let me go to scenes of pleasure That my heart has yearned to know! Oh! I long to grasp the treasure; Let me go—ah, let me go!

Let me go! for here I languish, Here I mourn departed love; Let me go where pain and anguish Cannot mar the courts above. I would go where grief and sighing, Saints immortal will not know, Where is felt no sickness, dying, There I'd go—yes, let me go!

Let me go! for bliss immortal Calls my soul from earth away, As I near the quiet portal Of that blest, eternal day. I would leave this world of sorrow, Where life's blighting evils grow; I would gain the bright to-morrow; I would go—ah, let me go!

Let me go! yes, I am praying For that pure and blest abode Where the angel bands are singing, In the presence of their God. Let me go! I mourn and sorrow As time passes all too slow, For I'd see the glowing morrow; Let me go—Oh! I would go!

Let me go! my soul is sighing For the mansions of the blest. There's no sting to me in dying; Soon I'll gain eternal rest. I am weary—Oh! so weary, As I stem life's tide of woe! Hope's delusive—earth is dreary— Let me go—yes, I would go!