Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: When blooming youth is snatched away
Topic: Funerals
Writer: Anne Steele
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: CM
Tune: Corinth
Hymn Number: 328
Page Number: 108, 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,
O 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.
O let us fly, to Jesus fly,
Whose powerful arm can save;
Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
And triumph o'er the grave.