Oh! how beautiful Was their golden wings, With music in their voices That the living can’t sing.
They told of the heavens So sweetly to me, And tell mother you were visited By Mildred and Marie.
The rose of my life Were in bloom it seems, When I saw your face In my golden dreams.
It cleansed my thoughts So sweet and bright, I ne’er wanted to awake Out of my slumbers that night.
Oh! torturing sadness, why burden me now? Hide behind those unhappy thoughts that’s the cause of my broken vow, You build around me those death chilled walls, Leaving no sunshine in, But fate is the cause in letting me fall Deep into this untold sin.
But I’ll take you with a smile, It matters not where’er I be I’ll stand my ground like a man If you’re rough as the water of the mad rushing sea.
When we lie down On our couch to rest, Our conscience must be clear To be heavenly blessed.
Then smile, oh gentle Savior, As you pass on into sleep, Then somewhere in slumber land You may holy creep.
There your sins are washed away, And replaced by golden wings, Oh, think what you’ll enjoy To hear the heaven’s choir sing.
Isn’t it hard to give Your heart and soul For the one you’d die to let live, When day by day they are growing cold.
Oh, Lord, teach me from day to day To dwell in the path Along the righteous way. Remove my thoughts Of riches and gold, For this so many Have traded their souls.
Each moment you frown You’re stealing from your life, And at times you break the heart Of a dear sweet wife.
One’s greatest fancy is a smile And love’s brightest way is hope, Then time’s golden entrance is patience.
Though the years to us may come and go, But out of my memory ne’er can flow The ring I gave you that spoke in silence For you it held you, but for me violence.
A wicked thought is easy bought, But values nothing in gold. So read this verse between times, And let righteousness into your soul.
I like all nature’s beauty, I like to rove the wild wood, My heart likes to hold in its depth, I like only thoughts that are good.
True like the sun does shine, Aloud like the bells do ring, Joy like my heart loves, It likes a little song to sing.
Nice, like a sweet summer’s eve, Tender, like the breezes do blow, My heart likes to love some one, It likes a place to go.
