Only Waiting
- Words:
- Mrs. Frances L. Mace
- Music:
- Ira D. Sankey
Sheet music
- 1Only waiting till the shadowsAre a little longer grown;Only waiting till the glimmerOf the day’s last beam is flown;Only waiting till the reapersHave the last sheaf gathered home;For the summertime has fadedAnd the autumn winds have come.
- 2Waiting for a brighter dwellingThan I ever yet have seen,Where the tree of life is blooming,And the fields are ever green:
In the hymnals
- The words are in 110 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.