Nearing the Golden Gate

Verse 1

Nearing the Gate, with the sun in the west, As slowly the day is declining; The rays meet the waves with their bright foaming crest, The clouds putting on a bright lining.

Chorus

Nearing the Gate, the fair Golden Gate, Beyond it the evergreen shore; Where beauty and sunshine the valleys adorn, And sorrow shall come nevermore.

Verse 2

Nearing the Gate, with the sea tossing high, ‘Mid hardships the journey we’re making. In port, soon we’ll anchor where perils are o’er, And billows no longer are breaking.

Verse 3

Nearing the Gate, it is life’s closing day, The “Harbor of Peace” we have sighted; And O what a rapture will shortly be ours, At home with our loved ones united.