Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: How blest are they whose transient years
Topic: Present and Future/Life and Death
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: W Bradbury
Meter: LM
Tune: Rest
Hymn Number: 707
Page Number: 257, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsHow blest are they whose transient years
Pass like an evening meteor's flight:
Not dark with guilt, nor dim with tears:
Whose course is short, unclouded, bright.
Oh, cheerless were our lengthened way:
But heaven's own light dispels the gloom,
Streams downward from eternal day,
And casts a glory round the tomb.
Oh, stay thy tears; the blest above
Have hailed a spirit's heavenly birth,
And sung a song of joy and love;
Then why should anguish reign on earth?