beautiful beckoning hands

beautiful hands at the gateway tonight,
faces all shining with radiant light;
eyes looking down from yon heavenly home,
beautiful hands they are beckoning “come.”

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beautiful hands, beckoning hands,
calling the dear ones to heavenly lands;
beautiful hands, beckoning hands,
beautiful, beautiful, beckoning hands.

beckoning hands of a mother whose love
sacrificed life her devotion to prove;
hands of a father to memory dear,
beckon up higher the waiting ones here.

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beautiful hands of a little one, see!
baby voice calling, o mother, for thee;
rosy cheeked darling, the light of the home,
taken so early is beckoning “come.”

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beckoning hands of a husband, a wife,
watching and waiting the loved one of life;
hands of a brother, a sister, a friend,
out from the gateway tonight they extend.

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brightest and best of that glorious throng,
center of all and theme of their song;
jesus, our savior, the piercèd one stands,
lovingly calling with beckoning hands.

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