"Love's Old Sweet Song,"
Two Stanzas By Ronald Ginther
To You, O my Strength, I will sing praise.--Ps. 59:17
Note: With the added stanzas, this has become a song of the Coming Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is coming as the Bridegroom for His Church the Bride. It has intimations of that grand event, the Rapture, which is the chief event at the Twilight of the Church Age and the hope of multitudes of believers, but at the same time it can also refer to the drawing to a close at the twilight of the Christian's life and the simultaneous drawing close of the Savior to his own, as He, the Good Shepherd, gathers his weary sheep, one by one, gently and softly. "Love's Old Sweet Song" is, of course, the Gospel, the Good News, given us some 2,000 years ago, beginning at Calvary.
Just a song at twilight
when the light are low,
and the fliking shadows
softly come and go.
Tho' the heart grows weary
and the day is long,
still to us at twilight
comes love's old song,
comes love's old sweet song.
New Stanzas:
2. There's a song at twilight
sung by birds unseen,
and their wings a'flutter
catch the last light gleam!
And our hand, she tremble,
oh so weak, unsure--
now that Day draws nearer
comes Love's old song,
comes Love's old sweet song.
3. There's a song at twilight
which dear Jesus breathed
way up on His cross
while the earth lay grieved.
Strange, the strength His dyin'
imparts our heart!
Still to us at twilight
comes Love's old song,
comes Love's old sweet song.