We Shall Meet Our Friends Departed

Verse 1

We shall meet our friends departed, Though we left them long ago To their lone and dreamless slumbers, In the silent dust below; We shall meet them, O how glorious! When this weary life is o'er, In those bright, celestial regions, Blest and happy evermore.

Chorus

We shall meet, yes, we shall meet them, when our journeyings are o'er, We shall meet them, Hallelujah! On that bright and shining shore.

Verse 2

We shall meet our friends departed Whom the promised land hath won, Shining as the stars of heaven, Round the everlasting throne; Onward, every soul, to duty, Scatter wide the shades of gloom, All of life is in the future, Life is bliss beyond the tomb.

Verse 3

We shall meet our friends departed, Clothed in robes of heavenly white, And with sainted voices greet them In a land of life and light; Lift no voice of grief or sorrow That they moulder in the dust; We shall meet them on the morrow At the rising of the just.