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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 6.

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SOMETIME

By Sel.

I am waiting for the shadows round me lying To drift away; I am waiting for the sunlight, always flying, To come and stay; I know there's light beyond the cloudy curtain, A light sublime! That it will shine on me I know is certain, Sometime! sometime!
I am waiting for the summer's golden luster, Now far away, When golden fruits around my life shall cluster Each sunny day. We read of fabled flowers in fabled story, In far-off clime, And I shall pick them in their pristine glory, Sometime! sometime!
Then I shall hear the voice of loved ones call me, To their dear side; And I shall then, whatever may befall me, Rest satisfied; For on my ear sweet notes of love shall tremble In matchless rhyme, From hearts and lips that never can dissemble, Sometime! sometime!
I am waiting; but at times I grow so weary— Far seems the day When all the pain which makes our lives so dreary Shall pass away. I know the heart, oft filled with tones of sadness Like funeral chime, Shall echo back with songs of love and gladness Sometime! sometime!
—Sel.