Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: I would not live always I ask not to stay (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: I would not live always I ask not to stay

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer: T Cook

Meter: 11s

Tune: Memory (Stop)

Hymn Number: 828

Page Number: 319, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

I would not live alway;

I ask not to stay

Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way;

The few cloudy mornings that dawn on us here,

Are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer.