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Hymn: How short and hasty is our life (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: How short and hasty is our life

Topic: The New Life/Aspirations

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune: Longing for Rest

Hymn Number: 584

Page Number: 212, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

How short and hasty is our life:

How vast our soul's affairs!

Yet foolish mortals vainly strive

To lavish out their years.