EVANGELINE

      Evangeline sweet angel

     Thou art forever blest

     Thy head is safely pillowed

     On thy Redeemer's breast.

 

      Thy name revealed thy nature,

     Evangel -- sent of God:

     To spread the Gospel message

     O'er all the earth abroad.

 

      Evangeline -- sweet singer

     Of thy Redeemer's praise

     Hast joined the heavenly chorus

     And learned its hallowed ways.

 

      With holy angel voices

     Thy golden harp doth ring,

     And in their holy anthem

     I think I hear thee sing

 

      "O Heaven, sweet Heaven.

     Home of the blest:

     How I long to be there

     And its glories to share

      And to lean on my Savior's breast."

 

                                                 Helen Arnold