Beautiful Beckoning Hands

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beautiful hands, beckoning hands,

calling the dear ones to heavenly lands;

beautiful hands, beckoning hands,

beautiful, beautiful, beckoning hands.

beckoning hands of a mother whose love

sacrificed life her devotion to prove;

hands of a father to memory dear,

beckon up higher the waiting ones here.

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beautiful hands of a little one, see!

baby voice calling, o mother, for thee;

rosy cheeked darling, the light of the home,

taken so early is beckoning “come.”

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beckoning hands of a husband, a wife,

watching and waiting the loved one of life;

hands of a brother, a sister, a friend,

out from the gateway tonight they extend.

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brightest and best of that glorious throng,

center of all and theme of their song;

jesus, our savior, the piercèd one stands,

lovingly calling with beckoning hands.

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