Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: When blooming youth is snatched away
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: 699
Page Number: 255, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsWhen blooming youth is snatched away
By death's resistless hand,
Our hearts the mournful tribute pay,
Which pity must demand.
While pity prompts the rising sigh,
Oh may this truth, impressed
With awful power, "I, too, must die,"
Sink deep in every breast.
Let this vain world engage no more;
Behold the opening tomb:
It bids us seize the present hour;
To-morrow death may come.
Oh, let us fly-to Jesus fly,
Whose powerful arm can save;
Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
And triumph o'er the grave.