For the sweet and cheerful voices,

And the forms so pure and bright,

That shall welcome us in heaven,

Are the loved of long ago;

And to them ’tis kindly given,

Thus their mortal friends to know.

4 O, ye weary, sad, and tossed ones,

Droop not, faint not by the way;

Ye shall join the loved and just ones

In the land of perfect day.