Come, Let Us Join Our Friends Above

Verse 1

Come, let us join
our friends above
who have obtained the prize,

and on the eagle
wings of love
to joys celestial rise.

Let saints on earth
unite to sing
with those to glory gone,
for all the servants
of our King
in earth and heaven are one.

Verse 2

One family we
dwell in him,
one church above, beneath,
though now divided
by the stream,
the narrow stream of death;

one army of
the living God,
to his command we bow;
part of his host
have crossed the flood,
and part are crossing now.

Verse 3

Ten thousand to
their endless home
this solemn moment fly,
and we are to
the margin come,
and we expect to die.

E’en now by faith
we join our hands
with those that went before,
and greet the
blood-besprinkled bands
on the eternal shore.

Verse 4

Our spirits too
shall quickly join,
like theirs with glory crowned,
and shout to see
our Captain’s sign,
to hear his trumpet sound.

O that we now
might grasp our Guide!
O that the word were given!
Come, Lord of Hosts,
the waves divide,
and land us all in heaven.