O My Father

v.1 O my Father, thou that dwellest v.2 For a wise and glorious purpose v.3 I had learned to call thee Father, v.4 When I leave htis frail existence, In the high and glorious place, Thou hast placed me here on earth Thru thy Spirit from on high, When I lay this mortal by, When shall I regain thy presence And witheld the recollection But, until the key of knowledge Father, Mother, may I meet you And again behold thy face? Of my former friends and birth; Was restored, I knew not why. In your royal courts on high? In thy holy habitation, Yet ofttimes a secret something In the heav'ns are parents single? Then, at length, when I've completed Did my spirit once reside? Whispered, "you're a stranger here," No, the thought makes reason stare! All you sent me forth to do, In my first primeval childhood And I felt that I had wandered Truth is reason; truth eternal With your mutual approbation Was I nurtured near thy side? From a more exalted sphere. Tells me I've a mother there. Let me come and dwell with you.