Although I’m with you now, My friends,

I can’t be with you long.

For I must go and leave you all;

It fills my heart with pain.

Although we part perhaps in tears,

I hope we’ll meet again.

Found also SOH 30. The tune is like that of the English morris dance ‘I’ll Go and Enlist for a Sailor’, Sharp, Morris Dances, Set No. VIII., 6; ‘Gilderoy’, SMM, No. 5; and ‘Come all ye Faithful Christians’, JFSS, ii., 115-120.

No. 55
[VESPER], Baptist Hymnal, No. 65

Hexatonic, mode 3 A (I II III — V VI VII)