The moments won’t wait for us, darling (Daniel Franklin Hodges)

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• (Posted 2024-05-23)  CPDL #80770:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-23).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 368 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The moments won’t wait for us, darling
Composer: Daniel Franklin Hodges
Lyricist: Minnie Field^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1875 Lee & Shepard
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English text

The moments won’t wait for us darling,
They haste them untimely away;
Their footsteps are echoless ever,
As after each other they stray.

By and by when we cross the dark river,
To the land that we dream is so fair;
We can tarry forever, my darling,
The moments won’t trouble us there.

’Tis true, there are bright sunny mornings,
When dew drops do brighten each flower,
Whose suns are ne’er clouded with shadows,
But glorious and beauteous each hour.

The moments are hastening, darling,
To hide them away in the past;
They stretch out their arms toward the ages,
Are lost and forgotten at last.

They’re bearing us with them my darling,
On unwearied wings far away,
Their watchword forever is ONWARD,
Nor tarry they e’er by the way.