Watching and Waiting by L. D. Santee

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 27, 1878

Watching and Waiting.

By L. D. Santee

OH! 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.

Seek we o'er the rolling water some fair spot to sin unknown, Vain our search, for dread disaster reigns upon the ocean's throne. Men go shuddering down to silence ne'er to wake while surges roar; Waves are moaning for redemption, sobbing on the trembling shore.

Oh! the weary, weary ages! oh! the years so filled with woe! Still there follow in their seasons summer's heat and winter's snow. Patience, patience, ye despairing; soon will come the King sublime, And eternal hands are weaving off the measured thread of time.---L. D. Santee.