Thomas Clark - Why do we mourn departing friends? - текст песни (слова)

Why do we mourn departing friends,
 Or shake at death's alarms?
 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends
 To call them to his arms.
 
 The graves of all his saints he blest,
 And soften'd ev'ry bed:
 Where should the dying members rest, 
 But with their dying Head?
 
 Thence he arose, ascending high,
 And showed our feet the way;
 Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly
 At the great rising day.
 
 Then let the last loud trumpet sound,
 And bid our kindred rise;
 Awake, ye nations under ground;
 Ye saints, ascend the skies.