Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Life is a span a fleeting hour
Topic: The New Life/Present and Future
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: Dunlap's Creek
Hymn Number: 697
Page Number: 255, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLife is a span-a fleeting hour;
How soon the vapor flies!
Man is a tender, transient flower
That, even in blooming, dies.
The once-loved form, now cold and dead,
Each mournful thought employs;
And nature weeps her comforts fled,
And withered all her joys.
Hope looks beyond the bonds of time,
When what we now deplore
Shall rise in full, immortal prime,
And bloom to fade no more.
Cease, then, fond nature, cease thy tears;
Religion points on high;
There everlasting spring appears,
And joys that can not die.