There's a happy time a-coming when your worries will be over, When your blues will all be golden and your frowns all smoothed away, When your soul will be in merriment, your fortune be in clover; Why not to-day? There's a happy time a-coming when you'll count the gold of heaven As you balance up your ledger, -- what you get and what you pay; When you'll raise your human spirits with the angels' happy leaven; Why not to-day? There's a happy time a-coming when your hatreds will be buried, -- In the sea of love be buried, and be anchored down to stay; Brother-love will come to bless you, o'er those charmed waters ferried; Why not to-day? There's a happy time a-coming when your eyes will see with wonder All the beauties and the graces of the friends about your way; And you'll hasten then to praise them e'er your lives be torn asunder; Why not to-day? There's a happy time a-coming when the sin so long your master Will be grappled with and wrestled with in fierce, determined fray, -- When God's grace will drive it from you and your hate will drive it faster; Why not to-day? There's a happy time a-coming when the task so long neglected Will be manfully attempted with no instant of delay, And your noble resolutions into high result erected; Why not to-day? There's a happy time a-coming when all good in earth and heaven, When all power and all promise will be yours for aye and aye; You are eager, God is eager, -- for the asking all is given; Why not to-day? |