Hymnals of the Stone-Campbell Movement

Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: As the sweet flower that scents the morn (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: As the sweet flower that scents the morn

Topic: Present and Future/Life and Death

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

Composer: W Bradbury

Meter: LM

Tune: Rest (Stop)

Hymn Number: 702

Page Number: 256, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

As the sweet flower that scents the morn,

But withers in the rising day-

Thus lovely seemed the infant's dawn;

Thus swiftly fled his life away!



Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,

Death timely came with friendly care;

The opening bud to heaven conveyed,

And bade it bloom forever there.



He died to sin, and all its woes,

But for a moment felt the rod-

On love's triumphant wing he rose,

To rest forever with his God!