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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 21, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 16

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SOON

By L. D. Santee

BY L. D. SANTEE.
Soon will the strife of battle cease, And the weary toilers have time for rest, And the olive branch of an endless peace Wave o’er the holy and the blest; And the toils and tears of earth-dark years Will be all in the past, to be feared no more; While the saved, to the music of the spheres, Shall pass in gladness to heaven’s bright shore.
’T is a long, long race that the saints have run, Six thousand sad and weary years; But the strife of ages will soon be done, And rapture will take the place of tears; And glory bright, ’neath heaven’s dome, Shall bathe the brows that are worn with care; While the river of life from ’neath the throne Shall bless with its waters, “over there.”
Oh! the vales of Eden are pure and sweet, And the harps of the blessed make music grand; And rest is long for the pilgrim feet That stand at last in the dear home land; And loved ones so widely sundered here Shall stand united in endless day; While every heartache and every fear Shall vanish forever, and pass away.