1 The world is sad with hopes that die,
with joys that gleam and then go by;
and dim the mortal eyes that gaze
on setting suns of parting days.
2 Better the hope, the joy, the light
for those with Holy Spirit sight!
For they whose life is hid on high
shall never part and never die.
3 They never part! that saintly band,
heirs of the heavenly holy land;
whom God the Spirit has made one
with God the Father and the Son.
4 They never die! the deathly strife
but ushers them to glorious life!
From their last enemy they gain
their birth to bliss, their end to pain.
5 But woe to them whose hearts are given
to joys and treasures not of heaven;
their stark awaking is to shame,
the second death in endless flame.
6 O Jesus, teach our hearts to soar
and grasp those things which are before;
that after death, our life may be
that immortality with Thee!
