The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book ‎#921

921. Thus one by one our loved ones go

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

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

3 How much of grief, how little joy,
How little gold, how much alloy,
How many doubts, how many fears
Ye bring us, O ye passing years.

4 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.

Text Information

• First Line: Thus one by one our loved ones go
• Author: F. E. Belden
• Publication Date: 1886
• Topic: Death and Resurrection

Tune Information

• Name: OSBORNE
• Composer: Edwin Barnes
• Meter: L. M.
• Key: F Major or modal
• Notes: Alternate tunes: #914 or 923.