====== #10 - The Shining Shore—Nelson ======
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  *Composer:
    *++George Frederick Root|{{search>"George Frederick Root" @cobs}}++ (1820-1895), 1855
    *Written to verses composed by David Nelson (1793-1844), 1835(([[:refs#World Manufacturing Co. brochure]]))
  *Also known as:
    *My Days are Gliding Swiftly By
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
My days are gliding swiftly by,\\
And I, a pilgrim stranger,\\
Would not detain as they fly,\\
Those hours of toil and danger.\\
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For oh, we stand on Jordan's strand,\\
Our friends are passing over;\\
And just before the Shining Shore\\
We may almost discover.\\
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We'll gird our loins, my brethren dear,\\
Our heav'nly home discerning;\\
Our absent Lord has left us word,\\
Let ev'ry lamp be burning.\\
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Should coming days be cold and dark,\\
We need not cease our singing;\\
That perfect rest naught can molest,\\
Where golden harps are ringing.\\
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Let sorrow's rudest tempests blow,\\
Each chord on earth to sever;\\
Our King says, Come, and there's our home,\\
Forever, oh, forever.\\
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    *David Nelson (1793-1844), 1835