The Book of Worship ‎#375

375. The leaves around me falling

1 The leaves around me falling
Are preaching of decay;
The hollow winds are calling,
"Come, pilgrim, come away!"
The day in night declining
Says I, too, must decline;
The year its bloom resigning--
Its lot foreshadows mine!

2 The light my path surrounding,
The loves to which I cling,
The hopes within me bounding,
The joys that round me wing--
All, all, like stars at even,
Just gleam and shoot away,
Pass on before to heaven,
And chide at my delay.

3 The friends gone there before me,
Are calling from on big,
And happy angels o'er me
Tempt sweetly to the sky;
"Why wait," they say, "and wither,
'Mid scenes of death and sin?
Oh rise to glory hither,
And find true life begin!"

4 I hear the invitation,
And fain would rise and come,
A sinner to salvation,
An exile to his home;
And while I here must linger,
Thus, thus, let all I see
Point on with faithful finger
To heaven, O Lord, and Thee!

Text Information

• First Line: The leaves around me falling
• Meter: 7s & 6s.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1867
• Topic: Man a Saint: In Prospect of Heaven

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