Comrade, when together
Shall we tramp again
In the summer weather,
You and I together,
Now as then?
JOSEPH P. WEBSTER.
No one who reads this book is unfamiliar with "The Sweet Bye and Bye." But how many of us, as we sang that song, realized that both its words and music were written by a Wisconsin man,—Joseph P. Webster?
He was born in New Hampshire in 1819, but he lived most of his life at Elkhorn, where he died in 1875. He was a member of many musical societies, and was the composer of many other songs, the best known of the latter being "Lorena."
SWEET BYE AND BYE
Composed by Joseph Philbrick Webster, February, 1868.
I.
There's a land that is fairer than day,
And by faith we can see it afar,
For the Father waits over the way,
To prepare us a dwelling place there.
Chorus.