Over the River
Source Text: "Over the River" by Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest, originally published anonymously in the Springfield Republican, 1857. Later set to music by Asa B. Hutchinson and published by Henry Tolman & Co. (Boston) in 1860; published posthumously by Lee and Shepard (Boston) in "Over the river, and other poems" (1883).
Over the river they beckon to me,
loved ones who've crossed to the other side.
The gleam of their snowy robes I see
but their voices are lost in the rushing tide.
There's one with ringlets of sunny gold
and eyes the reflection of heav'n's own blue.
He crossed in the twilight gray and cold
and the pale mist hid him from mortal view.
We saw not the angels who met him there,
The gates of the city we could not see,
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