And is it so? a little while

And is it so? "A little while,"
And then the life undying,
The light of God's unclouded smile,
The singing for the sighing?
"A little while!" O glorious word,
Sweet solace of our sorrow
And then "forever with the Lord,"
The everlasting morrow.

Then be it ours to journey on
In paths that He decrees us,
Where His own feet before have gone,
Our strength, our hope, our Jesus
In lowly fellowship with Him
The cross appointed bearing
For O a crown no grief can dim
One day we shall be wearing.

O 'twill be passing sweet to gaze
On Him in all His glory
And lost in love and glad amaze
To shout redemption's story
Till angels bend to catch the strain
Our human lips are swelling,
And "worthy is the Lamb once slain,"
Resounds through Heaven's high dwelling.