Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Date: 1853
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: A Campbell
First Line: I would not live always I ask not to stay
Topic: Exhortatory Songs
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 11s
Tune:
Hymn Number: Song 187
Page Number: 278, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI WOULD not live always: I ask not to stay
Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way,
The few cloudy mornings that dawn on us here,
Are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer.
I would not live always: no--welcome the tomb,
Since Jesus has lain there, I'll enter its gloom;
There sweet be my rest till he bid me arise,
To hail him in triumph descending the skies.
Who, who would live always away from his God--
Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode:
Where the rivers of pleasure flow o'er the bright plains,
And the noontide of glory eternally reigns?
Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet,
Their Saviour and brethren transported to greet;
While the anthems of rapture unceasingly roll,
And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul.