Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: How blest are they whose transient years
Topic: Funerals
Writer: <no first name given> Norton
Composer: I Woodbury
Meter: LM
Tune: Blessing
Hymn Number: 156
Page Number: 055, 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!
O 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.
O 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?