Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: By cool Siloam's shady rill
Topic: Home/Youth and Age
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: I Woodbury
Meter: CM
Tune: Siloam
Hymn Number: 801
Page Number: 302, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBy cool Si-lo-am's shad-y rill,
How fair the li-ly grows!
How sweet the breath, be-neath the hill,
Of Sha-ron's dew-y rose!
Lo! such the child, whose early feet
The paths of peace have trod,
Whose secret heart, with influence sweet,
Is upward drawn to God.
By cool Siloam's shady rill
The lily must decay;
The rose that blooms beneath the hill,
Must shortly fade away.
And soon, too soon, the wintry hour
Of man's maturer age
Will shake the soul with sorrow's power,
And stormy passions rage.
O thou who givest life and breath,
We seek thy grace alone,
In childhood, manhood, age, and death,
To keep us still thine own!