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[A little while together]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jno. R. Sweney Incipit: 53116 65554 65353 Used With Text: A Little While Together
[A little while together]
A Little While Together
Author: Rachael Rivers Appears in 3 hymnals Used With Tune: [A little while together]
A Little While Together
A Little While Together
Author: Rachael Rivers Hymnal: The Emory Hymnal #90 (1887) Languages: English Tune Title: [A little while together]
A Little While Together
A Little While Together
Author: Rachel Rivers Hymnal: On Joyful Wing #95 (1886) Lyrics: 1 A little while together
We tread life’s onward way,
And gather up its roses,—
Frail blossoms of a day,—
And then a place is vacant,
A step is heard no more,
And one, and then another,
We cross to yonder shore.
Refrain:
A little while together,
Then all of earth is o’er,
And one, and then another,
We cross to yonder shore.
2 A little while together
For social prayer we meet,
And blend our happy voices
Around the mercy seat;
Then hands are clasped in silence,
And, when we meet again,
We miss a link that sparkled
In friendship’s hallowed chain. [Refrain]
3 Oh, who would dwell forever
In this bleak world of care,
Away from him who calls us
To mansions bright and fair?
Where years and countless ages
Flow on in ceaseless joy,
And songs of praise and glory
Our raptured tongues employ? [Refrain] Tune Title: [A little while together]
A Little While Together
A Little While Together
Author: Rachel Rivers Hymnal: Temple Trio #95 (1886) Tune Title: [A little while together]
A Little While Together
John R. Sweney
1837 - 1899 Person Name: Jno. R. Sweney Composer of "[A little while together]" in On Joyful Wing John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy.
Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker.
Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission
John R. Sweney
