MEMORIES
ADIEUS
Whenwe from the ship or shoreBid farewell—Oh, fare thee well!Though the voyage may be o’erOcean-vasts and none can tellWhether we shall evermoreMeet again, yet fare-thee-wellMeans a hope whose accents spellTill we greet again—farewell!When we over sea or landGodspeed wish—Oh, speed thee God!Him we trust with kindly hand,Narrow though the way or broad,Sometime from the distant strandBack again to bring us shodJoyous o’er the way we trod.Hope is Godspeed—speed thee God!When our parting word fore’erIs goodbye—God’s way be thine!Whether ’tis ourself who fareOr another we resign,Yet committed to His careAnd a future as benign,We await the proof divineHope’s goodbye is God be thine!
Whenwe from the ship or shoreBid farewell—Oh, fare thee well!Though the voyage may be o’erOcean-vasts and none can tellWhether we shall evermoreMeet again, yet fare-thee-wellMeans a hope whose accents spellTill we greet again—farewell!When we over sea or landGodspeed wish—Oh, speed thee God!Him we trust with kindly hand,Narrow though the way or broad,Sometime from the distant strandBack again to bring us shodJoyous o’er the way we trod.Hope is Godspeed—speed thee God!When our parting word fore’erIs goodbye—God’s way be thine!Whether ’tis ourself who fareOr another we resign,Yet committed to His careAnd a future as benign,We await the proof divineHope’s goodbye is God be thine!
Whenwe from the ship or shoreBid farewell—Oh, fare thee well!Though the voyage may be o’erOcean-vasts and none can tellWhether we shall evermoreMeet again, yet fare-thee-wellMeans a hope whose accents spellTill we greet again—farewell!
Whenwe from the ship or shore
Bid farewell—Oh, fare thee well!
Though the voyage may be o’er
Ocean-vasts and none can tell
Whether we shall evermore
Meet again, yet fare-thee-well
Means a hope whose accents spell
Till we greet again—farewell!
When we over sea or landGodspeed wish—Oh, speed thee God!Him we trust with kindly hand,Narrow though the way or broad,Sometime from the distant strandBack again to bring us shodJoyous o’er the way we trod.Hope is Godspeed—speed thee God!
When we over sea or land
Godspeed wish—Oh, speed thee God!
Him we trust with kindly hand,
Narrow though the way or broad,
Sometime from the distant strand
Back again to bring us shod
Joyous o’er the way we trod.
Hope is Godspeed—speed thee God!
When our parting word fore’erIs goodbye—God’s way be thine!Whether ’tis ourself who fareOr another we resign,Yet committed to His careAnd a future as benign,We await the proof divineHope’s goodbye is God be thine!
When our parting word fore’er
Is goodbye—God’s way be thine!
Whether ’tis ourself who fare
Or another we resign,
Yet committed to His care
And a future as benign,
We await the proof divine
Hope’s goodbye is God be thine!