And Is It So? A Little While

And is it so? "A little while,"

And then the life undying,

The light of God's unclouded smile,

The singing for the sighing?

"A little while!" O glorious word,

Sweet solace of our sorrow;

And then "forever with the Lord,"

The everlasting morrow.

Then be it ours to journey on

In paths that He decrees us,

Where His own feet before have gone,

Our strength, our hope, our Jesus;

In lowly fellowship with Him

The cross appointed bearing;

For O a crown no grief can dim

One day we shall be wearing.

O 'twill be passing sweet to gaze

On Him in all His glory;

And lost in love and glad amaze

To shout redemption's story;

Till angels bend to catch the strain

Our human lips are swelling,

And "worthy is the Lamb once slain,"

Resounds through Heaven's high dwelling.