Come Sing With Holy Gladness

’tis good for boys and maidens

sweet hymns to christ to sing,

’tis meet that children’s voices

should praise the children’s king:

for jesus is salvation,

and glory, grace and rest;

to babe and boy and maiden

the one redeemer blest.

o boys, be strong in jesus,

to toil for him is gain,

and jesus wrought with joseph

with chisel, saw and plane;

o maidens, live for jesus,

who was a maiden’s son;

be patient, pure and gentle,

and perfect grace begun.

soon in the golden city

the boys and girls shall play,

and through the dazzling mansions

rejoice in endless day;

o christ, prepare thy children

with that triumphant throng

to pass the burnished portals,

and sing th’eternal song.