Death and Resurrection

Thus one by one our loved ones go

No. 921
Metre L. M.
Tune OSBORNE.
Words F. E. Belden.
Music Edwin Barnes.
Key F major
Time 3/4
4 stanzas

Words

Thus one by one our loved ones go,From year to year, from snow to snow;The buds of springtime hardly bloomEre winter plucks them for the tomb.

The sweetest songsters soonest fly,The fondest hopes the soonest die,And harps but once to gladness strungAre on the weeping-willows hung.

How much of grief, how little joy,How little gold, how much alloy,How many doubts, how many fearsYe bring us, O ye passing years!

Though sorrow dims our vision here,Faith points beyond this mortal sphere,Where tears of anguish never flow,Where pain and death none ever know.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «DEATH AND RESURRECTION.»; hymn number «921» (large), tune name «OSBORNE. L. M.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «EDWIN BARNES.» at the right in the composer slot (capitals and small capitals). In the right margin, printed vertically and reading downward, «Copyrighted 1886» beside system 1 and «by F. E. Belden.» beside system 2. Stanza 1 is interlinear, between the staves, one line per system, with «1.» before «Thus»: «1. Thus one by one our loved ones go, From year to year, from snow to snow;» under system 1 and «The buds of springtime hard-ly bloom Ere win - ter plucks them for the tomb.» under system 2 («springtime» is printed as one word under two notes; «hardly» and «winter» are written whole here). The reference line «914, 923.» in italic figures stands centred over stanza 2 (sing also to the tunes of hymns 914 WOODWORTH or 923 RETREAT, both L. M.). Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in the left column below the music, numbered «2»–«4» without periods (written «2.»–«4.» here, as in the other deliveries of this book); the lines of each stanza are set flush. «F. E. Belden.» in italics after stanza 4. The print sets a thin space before «!» («years !»); it is closed up here. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's («weeping-willows» with its hyphen).